Hi. Jason's back from full
forecast details, lots
to talk about certainly in the next
24 hours plus, Sir. Yes.
And I have new details that are coming in
the sleet kind of little mixture that's
going to be developing with this storm.
Let's take you through the snowfall forecast.
Let me get out of the way,
so you can see the entire state.
All the way back into New Hampshire.
So it's going to be happening is we're going
to have heavy snow move in and sleet is
going to mix in for extreme southern Maine,
the southern coast,
especially York County right now.
But still 4 to 8 for them, 8 to 12 N of that.
Sanford and I even expect the potential
for some sleep to mix into Portland.
We'll see how much,
but if you get sleet in Portland,
it's closed 8 versus 1248 as
you head up to Greenville,
Millinocket, Lincoln, Bangor,
Belfast, Rockland and two to four,
mostly the county, a little bit of down.
Winter storm warnings are up
where you're going to have the
heaviest accumulation of snow.
So from Bar Harbor all the way
back to Augusta with one to two
inch per hour snowfall rates,
this is going to be once again tomorrow,
not today.
Advisory is up,
everyone else basically outside
of where we'll get the heaviest
snow in the the lowest amounts.
OK, that's really advisories are up for now.
Now as far as the satellite and radar,
are people asking me on Facebook
what happened to the snow yesterday?
Well,
what's left of it is exiting
the ground was so warm.
You really couldn't get accumulation
from that very weak system and
temperatures are cooling off now,
teens, 20s, thirties.
So watch out for some black ice,
certainly not enough to give you a
coating of snow in most spots but that
front from yesterday is exiting stage, right.
The next storm is really that area
of low pressure in the Midwest.
It's going to ride along this warm
front and bring precipitation here.
Here we go Wednesday morning,
today clear, it's a mild day.
We're close to 40 degrees.
We're going to be in the 40s.
OK,
another day above average,
but watch what happens here as a back door,
cold front is clearly moving in
eight and Caribou and 37 Portsmouth.
Look at that contrast across the state.
And then here goes that Snow shield
through 4:00 o'clock in the morning
Thursday snowing from Bar Harbor,
Waterville range leads S down to
Portsmouth and there could also be
some mixing going on of sleet that
you're not seeing here with a warm nose
of air pushing into the atmosphere.
OK, so not pictured as the sleet,
but you do see the snow outside of
Millinocket and callus from Waterville,
Bangor just barely in Bar Harbor at
5:00 in the morning moving South,
we get a break Thursday afternoon
evening time,
Snow shuts off.
And then here comes another
batch light to moderate at most
through four in the morning Friday
and then that's out of here.
So once again, here's a look at that map.
It is a significant storm for some.
It's a major storm.
You get around a foot of snow and Farmington,
Rangeley, Rumford, Bridgeton, Lewiston,
Auburn, then certainly you're going
to have major travel problems.
Even us here in Maine that are
used to snow and it's February,
it's still going to be quite
significant for some of us,
not the whole state sees that two to four
feet win W 10 to 15 knots gusting to 25.
Small craft advisory is up the forecast.
The next several days we go from 34.
Very quiet and tranquil.
Day to 17. Thursday.
Friday the snow is early after it wraps up.
Saturday clouds increase.
Sunday some snow showers,
nothing significant.
And then we'll see about Monday night
to Tuesday as temps try to rebound
to the freezing mark at the coast.
Clouds increase 41 another
warm day by February standards.
Thursday The snow is on and off,
mostly early and then late and
we see some clouds and sun.
Friday and Saturday much colder
and then Sunday light.
Rain and snow Monday,
late snow into Tuesday with snow
terrain depending on what happened.
So you can stay up to date with my
social media for the latest forecast
which you get you through this storm.
And right now obviously the sun not up
but it's going to be coming up and not
a bad day before the storm gets here.
Some of those numbers Napster come on man.
Winter making a final push for February
right before man with it's
February and may well Mom we're
ready. And we already know March is also
a winter month in the state of Maine.
So sometimes April.
So we're OK stop, stop, stop,
stop, stop, stop, stop. Thank you.