NBC5 First Warning Weather [Video]

Any sun early Saturday morning will quickly fade behind increasing clouds. Patchy light snow arrives during the late afternoon and evening. Highs reach the low 20s.Light snow becomes steadier and more widespread Saturday night. Lows reach the teens to around 20.Widespread, heavy snow really kicks into gear by daybreak on Sunday. Strong downslope and gap winds, from the east, are likely along west-facing slopes of the Green Mountains Sunday morning and midday. Gusts can reach 50 to 60 mph, at least.The snow likely mixes with or switches to sleet Sunday morning and afternoon from the Tri-Lakes region of New York to central Vermont and south. However, it remains possible that the mixing line makes it north of the Canadian border by later Sunday.For the southern four counties of Vermont, freezing rain takes over midday Sunday. A quarter to half-inch of icing is likely, especially from Rutland to Springfield and points …