Right.
So all toward the second half of last week,
you had said Monday looks like a pretty good day.
And here we are, it's a beautiful day.
I actually thought yesterday afternoon was a little nicer than I turned out
in my mind, which is fine because nobody has a problem with that.
Tomorrow looks fine and there is a change of the timing which I just
alluded to where
most of Wednesday is. Ok too.
So we're gonna talk about the exact time and that's the,
that's the biggest change from when we talked about it last week.
Um All right. Yeah. Beautiful. All right.
Now we're gonna move quickly through the beautiful,
just how it goes, right. It's kind of like the human condition. If you think about it.
51 in Portland, 50 in Wiscasset, 51 in Lewiston.
We got some more clouds coming in from the west later this afternoon.
So we will see an increase in cloud cover.
But overall a nice day, next storm system that we're watching is out here,
this piece of energy and this piece of energy gonna turn
into a big low and then recreate another coastal low.
That will be dealing with Wednesday afternoon and evening into
Thursday and Thursday night. So that was the signal. That was so, so strong
last week that I felt confident about the storm and obviously that has not changed.
But again, the timing has and we'll walk through that in a second.
But during the day on Tuesday, it's fine. And even Wednesday, I think
Wednesday getting to school definitely fine.
Most of Maine getting home from school also fine.
It's Wednesday night into Thursday and then Thursday morning, I think,
be the toughest part of this storm as the low develops offshore.
You can see it eventually moves back west here, Thursday evening into Friday.
Still some stuff going on Friday, but it's not gonna be able to accumulate that.
Well, so the rest of today,
clouds increase isolated rain or snow shower into the mountains.
Quick squall possible out towards Greenville and Millinocket again.
Tomorrow is a nice day, not quite as nice as today, but still mid and upper forties.
Couple of low fifties with a mixture of sun and clouds and during the day, Wednesday,
it looks ok too.
Here we are Wednesday morning, five o'clock, we do have clouds around,
but we're holding this moisture off
until Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening.
And so that's from southwest to northeast.
This is not gonna be exact, but just to give you an idea that we've got um,
four o'clock on Wednesday and just moving in New York and Cumberland County.
Ok.
That overspreads the snow does through Wednesday night.
And I think for the coastline especially
it's really Wednesday night into early Thursday that we have to
get all of our accumulation done because surface temperatures are borderline.
We do have to deal with the sun angle this time of the year.
I'm switching computer models now to show you Thursday morning.
I do think we'll be putting down some pretty
good snowfall rates all the way to the coast
through Thursday morning.
So when you talk about, um, maybe no school or
if you wanna work from home,
I think Thursday is your day because Thursday morning is pretty rough.
Um, along the coast line inland, especially.
And then this rain snow line starts to flirt with southern coastal Maine at least.
And I think with the wind turning east
and it being April,
I do think we'll change over to some sleet and
perhaps even rain along the immediate coastline on Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, it's still snowing inland and this heavy snowfall rates,
he wet heavy snow through Thursday evening.
And then once we get into late Thursday night,
there's still some rain and snow showers around.
But I think our major accumulation is done. So this is what we have right now.
Todd highlighted the area that we're still
watching because mixing is everything here.
If we don't mix along the coast, we're 8 to 12 everywhere easily.
If we do, we're 4 to 8 in more places. So I'll keep an eye on that this afternoon.
12 to 18 inland, though,
a couple of jackpot spots out towards Fryeburg wouldn't shock me
if they come in with over 18 inches of snow.
We also have some strong wind gusts same time period,
late Wednesday night into early Thursday east due east, about 40 to 50 miles an hour.
And I have some concerns about that,
Brian because
we, I'm just walking around coastal Maine driving around whatever. There's
still a lot of danglers out there.
Um,
broken tree limbs that are hanging from other trees and I think that will come back to
bite us on Thursday morning when we have gusty winds and wet snow clinging to them.
So we'll keep an eye on that power
just I would say are likely in quite a few spots there.
Lingering stuff on Friday garbage though. It's not gonna accumulate.
It won't really matter. That's where April helps you.
Sun returns for the weekend and early. Look at the eclipse is good,
which is a week from today.
Yeah, we definitely don't have a storm there, that's for sure.
Just a matter of exact cloud cover,
but right now it looks pretty favorable with the storm.
It was funny. The question on a meeting we had this morning was, is this wet snow? Yes,
it is. It is very clingy stuff, especially along the coastline.
All important detail, Keith, thanks.