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Flood — Essex, VT

Nov 1, 2019

A developing area of low pressure moved from the Gulf of Mexico on during the night of the 30th and moved north into the eastern Great Lakes as it intensified during the evening of October 31st. As the surface low moved across Ontario during the night of October 31st, its associated cold front slowly edged across Vermont during the early morning hours of November 1st.||The upper level pattern was very strong and dynamic with a direct moisture feed from the Gulf of Mexico, thus delivering copious

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 860738). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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