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Morning Forecast April 22, 2026
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Eye On The Sky — Morning Forecast April 22, 2026. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Good morning! From the Fairbanks Museum in St. John'sbury, welcome to this morning's edition of an Eye on the Sky. Although cold high pressure from yesterday morning headed into the Atlantic yesterday, taking the coldest air with it, the bigger weather picture favors cooler than average readings through the next several days. One of the keys to daytime temperatures this time of year is the amount of sunshine we get or don't get. Sun did turn a frosty morning into a manageable afternoon. Today, however, the lack of sunshine will limit afternoon readings, not really any warmer than yesterday, reaching the 40s and low 50s. The clouds are tied to a cold front arriving from the west, enhanced by a minor low pressure area near Buffalo this morning. It's weakening as it drifts eastward through New York, the trailing cold front edges southward. This tends to focus its energy to the south of us, close enough for its northern extension to squeeze out a few very light snow and rain showers from New York into southwest Vermont, mainly south of I-89 slipping through southwestern New Hampshire and into Massachusetts.
An isolated snow or rain shower is also possible north, but quite sparse related to a weak front pushing eastward through Quebec. These systems continue east to night, at which point they run into a log jam of sorts over the western Atlantic. A ridge of high pressure in the central Atlantic will block their progress and encourage areas of low pressure to redevelop to our east tomorrow into Friday. This tends to reinforce the northwest air flow over us, channeling additional packets of cool air and moisture for areas in New York and southwest of I-89, more sun than clouds expected tomorrow into Saturday. For areas north and east, there will be occasional elements of clouds, even a few spotty showers or wet snowflakes possible, starting late tonight and early tomorrow morning as a minor coal front edges southward, there won't be much activity Friday into Saturday, the clouds will remain frequent decorators of the skies for north-eastern sections. Accordingly, readings will mostly reach the 50s southwest and 40s to low 50s across north-eastern areas, easing back into the 50s this weekend.
Later on Saturday, another weather system attempts to hitch a ride on the northwest airflow, most likely sliding by well to our south. At several days out, we'll monitor the trends in terms of this weather system's placement, possibly brushing southern and western sections with at least some clouds and maybe even a few showers by Sunday afternoon if it takes a more northerly track, or it could remain out of the picture with seasonly cool weather through the weekend. We'll monitor the details as they reveal themselves. One other note today is Earth Day, an event dating back to the 1970s. Thinking about the phrase, think globally, act locally, I'd like to use the state to do a little hands-on work. Although the challenge varies widely through our region, I always try to get something planted on Earth Day. Peas, a variety of greens are often good choices early in the year, maybe some carrots, but also you could get in maybe some onion sets, those are good candidates as well. Now moving on to the forecast, look for mostly cloudy skies with some scattered snow-arranged
showers through New York and south of I-89, isolated north, mainly from the Green Mountains East this afternoon. Remaining cool, highs in the 40s, some low 50s, southwest, winds will be gentle from the south, except gusty from the Green Mountains west up to 20 to 30 miles per hour. Tonight mostly cloudy from the Green Mountains east, partly cloudy west, some localized snow or rain showers mostly north of I-89 late, lows in the low to mid 30s. Thursday, partly to mostly sunny, west of the Green Mountains, variable clouds and sun east, more clouds north east with a few localized passing rain or wet snow showers, highs 40s to near 50 north and east of I-89 in the 50s south and west. That's the weather story from the Fairbanks Museum in St. John's Prairie, make it a great day. See the Erylogist Mark Brin with an eye on the sky.
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