Matt Sutkoski
@mattweathervt.bsky.social
Vermont-based climate and weather blogger/reporter Also, gardens, photography, nature, humor
Matt's Weather Rapport: Trump's EPA has recently scrubbed its climate websites to remove pretty much all references to the human causes of #climatechange. It's denialism and a probably a deliberate assist to the fossil fuel industry. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/epa-...
EPA Scrubs Mention Of Human Caused Climate Change From Its Website
The EPA in recent weeks has scrubbed their websites of pretty much any information that climate change is caused by humans. It's denial, an...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Trump's EPA has recently scrubbed its climate websites to remove pretty much all references to the human causes of #climatechange. It's denialism and a probably a deliberate assist to the fossil fuel industry. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/epa-...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Utility shutoffs are soaring in the U.S. as people fall behind on electric bills amid rising costs. This, as the chill of #winter settles in. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/cold...
Cold Waves And Poor Economy Risks Having People Freezing In The Dark
Utility shutoffs are increasing across the United States as cold winter weather settles in. Skyrocketing costs are to blame. people In many...
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December 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Utility shutoffs are soaring in the U.S. as people fall behind on electric bills amid rising costs. This, as the chill of #winter settles in. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/cold...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Mount Mansfield, #Vermont has 63 inches of snow on the ground a record high for so early in the seasons. Ski areas are having an incredible December snowfest. Will it last? Details. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/snow...
Snow Continues To Set Records In Vermont's Green Mountains
A snowy view of Vermont's Mount Mansfield from January, 2021. This year, it's especially wintry up there. As of Friday, there was 63 inches ...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Mount Mansfield, #Vermont has 63 inches of snow on the ground a record high for so early in the seasons. Ski areas are having an incredible December snowfest. Will it last? Details. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/snow...
Matt's Weather Rapport: New research suggests that #climatechange might make the Sahara desert wetter and a little more green. Believe it or not, that change could make Atlantic hurricane seasons worse. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/clim...
Climate Change Might Make Sahara Desert Wetter, Could Make Hurricane Seasons Scarier
A satellite image of a bunch of dust blowing off of the Sahara desert into the Atlantic Ocean. This dust tends to suppress hurricanes. Recen...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: New research suggests that #climatechange might make the Sahara desert wetter and a little more green. Believe it or not, that change could make Atlantic hurricane seasons worse. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/clim...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Moist winds curling back from the North Atlantic is dumping snow on the northern Green Mountains, flurries elsewhere. Big changes in the weather pattern give us an uncertain weather future in #Vermont. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/weat...
Weather Patterns Are Setting Up For A Shift, That Doesn't Necessarily Mean Nicer Vermont Weather
Still looking blizzardy this morning along Route 105 in Jay, Vermont. Nearby Jay Peak Resort received about a foot and a half of snow in the...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Moist winds curling back from the North Atlantic is dumping snow on the northern Green Mountains, flurries elsewhere. Big changes in the weather pattern give us an uncertain weather future in #Vermont. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/weat...
Matt's Weather Rapport: River levels for the most part peaking today in Washington State. Record crests in some areas, 100,000+ evacuated. Rain diminishing but #flood to continue. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/wash...
Washington State Flood Update: Record River Crests As Unrelenting Rain Finally Starts To Diminish
A mudslide closed part of Interstate 90 in Washington State, hitting some vehicles in the process. Record flooding continue in Washington t...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: River levels for the most part peaking today in Washington State. Record crests in some areas, 100,000+ evacuated. Rain diminishing but #flood to continue. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/wash...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Nations in eastern Asia, particularly China, have done a great job reducing air pollution and smog. Has that cleaner air accelerated #climatechange? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/east...
East Asian Nations Tackle Air Pollution; Inadvertently Worsen Climate Change.
New pollution control laws in eastern Asian countries have reduced the number of smoggy days like this in the region substantially. But now ...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Nations in eastern Asia, particularly China, have done a great job reducing air pollution and smog. Has that cleaner air accelerated #climatechange? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/east...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Another wintry day here in #Vermont, blustery, snow showers in spots. Falling temperatures. Another dump of snow in northern Greens. But a change in the weather late next week? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/late...
Latest Vermont Snowfall Ends, Except In Northern Green Mountains
Heavy snow falling along Route 242 in Westfield not far From Jay Peak around 8 a.m. today. More than a foot of snow will fall in that area t...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Another wintry day here in #Vermont, blustery, snow showers in spots. Falling temperatures. Another dump of snow in northern Greens. But a change in the weather late next week? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/late...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont Wednesday afternoon snow update: After daylong snowfall, it's tapering off somewhat west to east, but evening commute still quite troublesome. Nice snow dump continues in mountains. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/verm...
Vermont Snow Tapering Off In Lowlands, Keeps Cranking In The Mountains
The snowy view through the windshield on Dorset Street in South Burlington this afternoon. Our daylong snowfall in Vermont has left us wit...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont Wednesday afternoon snow update: After daylong snowfall, it's tapering off somewhat west to east, but evening commute still quite troublesome. Nice snow dump continues in mountains. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/verm...
Matt's Weather Rapport: The atmospheric river in the Pacific Northwest, causing record flood crests and major flooding in Washington State. Problems all the way to Idaho and Montana. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/atmo...
Atmospheric River Drowning Pacific NW As Expected, Idaho Of All Places, Too. Meanwhile, California Dries Out
Snoqualmie Falls in Washington State is at its highest level in at least a decade due to this week's atmospheric river. Major flooding is ...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: The atmospheric river in the Pacific Northwest, causing record flood crests and major flooding in Washington State. Problems all the way to Idaho and Montana. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/atmo...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont's midsized snowfall is just beginning to arrive. Later than expected onset at least partly saves morning commute. As usual, Green Mtns to be big winter with this. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/wedn...
Wednesday Morning Vermont Winter Weather Update: Snow Delay Helps Morning Commute, Still A Ski Area Storm
This morning's updated National Weather Service snow forecast map. Biggest winners are the Green Mountains, as usual. Southern Green Mount...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont's midsized snowfall is just beginning to arrive. Later than expected onset at least partly saves morning commute. As usual, Green Mtns to be big winter with this. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/wedn...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Quick Tuesday evening update on modest snowfall heading to #Vermont tomorrow. Many areas under winter weather advisory for 3-7 inches of snow. Ski areas to do GREAT tomorrow into Friday. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...
Tuesday Evening Vermont Snow Forecast Update: Decent Dump In Green Mountains, Travel Trouble Wednesday
Through Friday morning, the next round of snow will really pile up in the Green Mountains. Yellow shading is six inches or more, orange is e...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Quick Tuesday evening update on modest snowfall heading to #Vermont tomorrow. Many areas under winter weather advisory for 3-7 inches of snow. Ski areas to do GREAT tomorrow into Friday. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Not quite a weather or climate story but too fascinating to resist. Watch a USGS camera record its own death, blasted by the #Kilauea volcano in #Hawaii. Details in comments. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/hawa...
Hawaii Volcano Destroys One Of The Cameras Monitoring It; Camera's Last Moments Are Fascinating
The live cameras trained on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano are often a must-watch. Screen grab from a camera on Kilauea just before it was destro...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Not quite a weather or climate story but too fascinating to resist. Watch a USGS camera record its own death, blasted by the #Kilauea volcano in #Hawaii. Details in comments. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/hawa...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Yet another frigid, subzero morning in #Vermont during an unrelentingly wintry December. Next up: More snow, then cold, then FRIGID. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/anot...
Another Frigid, Subzero Vermont Morning, Next Up, More Snow, Then More Cold
It's time this Vermont Tuesday morning to play another round of the frigid game, How Cold Was It? Another snow forecast map from the Nationa...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Yet another frigid, subzero morning in #Vermont during an unrelentingly wintry December. Next up: More snow, then cold, then FRIGID. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/anot...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Highwinds are blasting, or are about to blast a huge are of the northern U.S. nation from Washington State to Minnesota. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/huge...
Huge Area Of Northern United States Under Wind Alerts
High winds are and will be buffeting large areas of the northern and western United States over the next couple of days. Areas in various s...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Highwinds are blasting, or are about to blast a huge are of the northern U.S. nation from Washington State to Minnesota. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/huge...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Climatechange, whether natural or man-made, can have some surprising effects on humankind: New research says volcanic eruptions in 1345 cooled Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the Black Death. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/did-...
Did Past Climate Change Cause Medieval Black Death?
Recent research suggests volcanic eruptions in the tropics around the year 1345 was the spark that eventually led to the Black Death in Eur...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Climatechange, whether natural or man-made, can have some surprising effects on humankind: New research says volcanic eruptions in 1345 cooled Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the Black Death. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/did-...
Matt's Weather Rapport: It's a nippy December in #Vermont so far, and the frigid weather is forecast to continue. But it could be worse and historically, it has been. We've got a trip down memory lane to give you some cold comfort. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/yes-...
Yes, The Vermont Cold Is Awful But It's Been Worse
This little comic work for this month, that's for sure. But other Decembers in Vermont have been even worse. I was among many Vermonters l...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: It's a nippy December in #Vermont so far, and the frigid weather is forecast to continue. But it could be worse and historically, it has been. We've got a trip down memory lane to give you some cold comfort. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/yes-...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Private companies and billionaires are toying with the idea of pumping chemicals into the stratosphere to blunt #climatechange. This is probably a bad idea. Explanation and details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/rogu...
Rogue Private Companies Trying To Stop Climate Change In Potentially Dangerous, Risky Ways
A company called Make Sunsets wants to pump sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to blunt climate change. Sounds good, but a lot can go wr...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Private companies and billionaires are toying with the idea of pumping chemicals into the stratosphere to blunt #climatechange. This is probably a bad idea. Explanation and details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/rogu...
Matt's Weather Rapport: The ski season in #Vermont is off to its best start in years if not decades with tons of snow and consistent cold temperatures. Coming up: A little more snow and more Arctic blasts. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/verm...
Vermont Sunday Morning: Back To The Slowly Deepening Snow Pack Amid Cold December
The next round of snow this afternoon and tonight looks light and fluffy, but will add to the deep snow in the mountains. As you can see in ...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: The ski season in #Vermont is off to its best start in years if not decades with tons of snow and consistent cold temperatures. Coming up: A little more snow and more Arctic blasts. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/verm...
Matt's Weather Rapport: It's usually rainy and damp and dark in the #PacificNorthwest this time of year. But a series of atmospheric rivers over the next few days will turn the rain to torrents. Big flood risk. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/paci...
Pacific Northwest Braces For Atmospheric Rivers, Flooding Over Next Few Days
Atmospheric rivers could bring up to 10 inches of rain in the next few days parts of the Pacific Northwest, raising flooding fears. This map...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: It's usually rainy and damp and dark in the #PacificNorthwest this time of year. But a series of atmospheric rivers over the next few days will turn the rain to torrents. Big flood risk. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/paci...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont gets cold weather every winter. Duh. But the weather pattern settling in could well be the most persistent and arguably coldest in a decade. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/rele...
Relentless Cold December Weather Shows No Sign Of Breaking For Weeks
Winter tossed down a few more snowflakes in St. Albans, Vermont this morning. We're stuck in a pretty intense cold weather pattern and there...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont gets cold weather every winter. Duh. But the weather pattern settling in could well be the most persistent and arguably coldest in a decade. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/rele...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Fossilfuel industry presents health risks to nearly 47 million Americans, says Boston University study. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/foss...
Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Could Endanger Health Of 47 Million Americans
A Boston University study says that the sprawling U.S. fossil fuel industry presents health risks to nearly 47 million Americans. Just the ...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Fossilfuel industry presents health risks to nearly 47 million Americans, says Boston University study. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/foss...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Zillow started putting #climatechange risk info to property listings a little over a year ago. But now they've stopped doing that. The move appears to be in part pressure from real estate interests. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/zill...
Zillow Drops Climate Change Information From Listings;
Zillow has dropped climate change information from its real estate listings. Reportedly at least in part due to resistance from the real est...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Zillow started putting #climatechange risk info to property listings a little over a year ago. But now they've stopped doing that. The move appears to be in part pressure from real estate interests. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/zill...
Matt's Weather Rapport: This was the coldest early December morning in #Vermont in the past 36 years. Those of us who want to warm up in the coming days are out of luck. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/yes-...
Yes, It Was Remarkably Cold In And Around Vermont This Morning. Also, Winter Will Rage On
Steam rising from Lake Champlain in the distance on the coldest early December morning in 36 years. Image is from hazecam.net Midwinter cold...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: This was the coldest early December morning in #Vermont in the past 36 years. Those of us who want to warm up in the coming days are out of luck. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/yes-...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Donald #Trump this week says he's getting rid of vehicle efficiency standards, saying it will make things more affordable. It won't, plus his move will help worsen climate change. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/trum...
Trump Rolls Back Fuel Efficiency Standards, Latest Effort To Worsen Climate Change, It Almost Seems Like
Donald Trump, seen here overjoyed after some ICE raids, is getting rid of fuel efficiency standards in cars, offering false hope of "afforda...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Donald #Trump this week says he's getting rid of vehicle efficiency standards, saying it will make things more affordable. It won't, plus his move will help worsen climate change. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/12/trum...