Winter Storm — Central Somerset, Maine

2024-11-28 · Central Somerset, Maine

Event narrative

While snow began early in the morning on the 28th, snowfall rates picked up late morning through late afternoon. Snowfall rates where one inch per hour at times. Snow was heavy and wet, clinging to branches and breaking limbs. Power outages increased in the late afternoon, and the power outage rate was around 40 percent for the county. Snowfall totals ranged from 5 inches near Moosehead Lake to 12 inches in the higher elevations. Key Impacts: heavy snow, numerous power outages.

Wider weather episode

Early on the 28th an area of low pressure was tracking through the Ohio River Valley. By daybreak a secondary area of low pressure was developing in the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay, and would become the primary low pressure center by midday as it neared Long Island. The marginal temperatures of the early season air mass and easterly winds bringing warmer marine air inland meant that much of the initial precipitation fell as rain. By late afternoon precipitation type in marginal areas was flipping to snow as the precipitation rate increased. Snow continued into the late evening before winding down. It was a wet, heavy snowfall with higher totals that was well correlated to having a little bit of elevation.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1223067. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.