All right, we are back now 4:45,
talking about the weather coming this
weekend. I mean, there's still days and days,
but we were just chatting about, you know,
the, the, the severeness of this cold
outbreak that we're about to get.
Friday. Saturday, Sunday morning.
So it's a solid 48 hours.
Thankfully it's only 48 hours.
I mean, it retreats pretty quickly and
we're back to 40 degrees by next Monday,
but you know, this is going
to be significant cold that we
haven't had the likes of in years.
And, you know,
you got to think about folks that,
you know, are susceptible to this and,
you know, keep an eye on your
neighbors and your elderly friends
and things like that just to make
sure everything's kosher and OK and
something to mention too,
Todd, before that even.
I mean, we're seeing some
of that snow this morning.
And RSU 11 Gardner area.
Yeah, they have a delay,
2 hour delay. That's right
there on the back. Yeah.
It's not a lot of snow this morning.
So it's doable.
You know, it's not like it's gonna
take hours for plows to get roads
all cleaned up and things like that,
but the timing isn't.
Right for this commute.
So we have snow falling right now.
Back Edge is now cleared,
the mountains and foothills
in central Highlands,
but there are still a couple of
more hours of snow to be had.
Temps in southern parts of York
County are right around freezing.
It's not accumulating very well,
but you get up closer to Portland.
We're in the 20s,
back through Naples, Lewiston.
This band right through Topsham and
out over to Wiscasset is putting down
some decent snow rates at the moment,
all of eastern and coastal Maine.
Below freezing.
So it is sticking here and we'll end up
with a couple of inches in these spots,
so the commute will be slippery,
basically any.
Surface,
whether it's a sidewalk or walkway,
you're stairs.
Roads that don't have some fresh
salt out there on them are going
to have a coating of snow on them,
and it's going to be slippery because of it.
This front slides off the coast.
High pressure works in we develop sun,
which will make a huge difference
during the middle of the day,
but the air mass behind this front is cold.
Tonight.
We'll end up being the coldest
night of the season,
and I'll be saying that a lot
in the coming days.
Snow tapering off and ending by 9:00 AM.
You know the last flakes are
clearing Washington County,
but a lot of slippery spots out there.
Your commutes gonna be slower.
Midday clouds clear and it'll
turn a lot brighter.
The snow will melt because of that sunshine.
And I'm sure that crews will throw
a little salt out there too,
to make the roads better.
Afternoon and evening mainly clear.
Breeze picks up out of the northwest and
look what happens to our temperatures.
They slide from a midday high
around 32 into the 20s and
teens as the sun goes down.
And tomorrow is going to be
an exceptionally cold one.
We'll only have highs in the
20s despite nearly wall to wall
sunshine temperatures recover a
little bit on Thursday preceding
this Arctic front right here.
And this is a true Arctic front
that blasts through Thursday night.
And we'll wake up on Friday morning
with a temp around 10:00 or so.
The temp won't rise at all during the day.
That's how potent this air
is as it blasts in.
So we'll only get to like 12 or so.
And then it gets a lot colder.
The winds are going to howl
out of the northwest here,
and the core of that Arctic blast will
be right on top of us on Saturday.
That'll be one of the coldest
days in recent memory and coldest
feeling ones because of the.
The wind that will still be blowing.
The good news is this
retreats pretty quickly.
As I mentioned, by Sunday afternoon,
we're seeing temperatures recover up to
about 30 and then on Monday it's 40 degrees.
But Saturday morning when we wake up,
we're going to have teens below 0 along
the coast, nearly 20 below 0 inland
and 20s below 0 up in the mountains.
And these are not wind chill values.
And we will have wind on Saturday
morning too. So it'll feel more like.
20 to 40 below 0 now to
put this in perspective,
these types of temperatures
so far this season,
Portland has not gone below 0.
Our coldest temperature in Portland 11.
Bangor dipped below 0,
but just barely 2 below.
Last year we did get below 0 significantly,
7 below for Portland and 17 below for Bangor.
But I think this air on Saturday
morning will be colder than this and
that's why this will be the coldest
air mass that we have felt in years.
Small crafts are up through the day.
As the winds pick up out of the northwest,
they're going to gust to 30 knots.
We've got seas of three to five feet.
So here's the seven day forecast
after the snow tapers off.
This morning we clear out,
we'll have a high around 32 and that
little round of snow that we just
got will be melting this afternoon.
Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Highs only in the 20s.
We wake up at 0 inland along the coast.
It'll be in the single digits Thursday,
partly sunny, back up to around freezing,
and then we don't see that
occur again until Monday.
High of about 12 with no temperature
rise during the day on Friday.
A Saturday is going to be
brutal and I don't use that.
Loosely, you know,
and I don't talk, you know,
sternly that often when it comes to
cold because we're Mainers and we're,
you know, used to cold.
But this is going to be
a different kind of cold.
Exactly.
Even those Hardy snowmobilers that
have all of that gear on are going
to think twice about going out on
Saturday with that howling wind,
you know,
up through the mountains and all
that good terrain that, you know,
all of us want to play in.
But it's going to be difficult,
that's for sure.
Great stuff to keep an eye on.
Thank you, Todd.