Interior Waldo storm history

Snow overspread the area on the evening of the 23rd as a warm front approached northern New England. In the late evening stronger lift arrived and snow became moderate to heavy at times through the morning of the 24th. Light snow lingered until the afternoon before tapering off. …

Snow overspread the Midcoast on the morning of the 2nd. Warmer air near the coast delayed the onset of accumulating snow, but steady light to moderate snow picked up in the afternoon and continued into the evening. Snow tapered off after midnight on the 3rd. Snowfall totals range…

Waldo County averaged 2.15 inches of precipitation in December, approximately 2.4 inches below normal. This was the 3rd driest July'December stretch on record. The county remained under a Primary Natural Disaster Area designation, with 100% of the county classified in Extreme Dro…

Waldo County averaged 2.73 inches of precipitation in November, approximately 2 inches below normal. The rainfall deficits carried over from summer grew over 6 inches, making it the 5th driest stretch between July through November on record. The USDM on November 25th had 100% of …

Waldo County averaged 3.03 inches of precipitation in September, approximately an inch below normal. The rainfall deficits carried over from summer grew over 4 inches, making it the 6th driest stretch between July through September on record. The USDM on September 30th had 44% of…

Drought conditions developed across Maine in the summer of 2025. According to the August 26th, 2025 release of the United States Drought Monitor, 11% of Maine was experiencing Severe Drought, 62% was experiencing Moderate Drought and 87% was abnormally dry. Maine experienced a ra…

Light snow overspread the area in the late evening on the 15th. This continued into the morning of the 16th when an area of strong warm air advection resulted in a laterally translating band of moderate to heavy snow. This swept through the region by the afternoon of the 16th. Pe…

Snow overspread the area during the evening of the 3rd, heavy at times overnight into the morning of the 4th. Given the late season nature of the storm, much of the interior Midcoast observed temperatures near freezing in addition to the heavy snow. As a result much of the snow w…

Snowfall rates in excess of 1 inch per hour in the morning led to snowfall totals ranging between 4 and 8 inches. Late in the afternoon snow changed to freezing rain but did not lead to a significant glaze.

Strong southeast wind gusts began the morning of the 18th. While wind gusts remained strong throughout the day, the damaging gusts occurred in several waves in the morning, again at midday, and once more in the evening. The peak gusts were fairly typical of a high wind event duri…

Precipitation began during the afternoon on the 3rd as a wintry mix of rain and snow as a warm front had lifted up into the foothills. Cold air damming held in place across the interior, and as precipitation intensity increased the temperatures cooled as far south as the hills of…

Minor impacts were reported for this event. No inundation flooding was reported, but there was high surf on the Saturday midday high tide cycle as long period 8 to 10 foot swells reached the coast. This caused some minor splash-over and erosion in isolated areas. Northerly wind g…

A hard freeze impacted the region shortly after midnight on May 18th with widespread sub-freezing temperatures. Temperatures ranged from freezing to the upper-20s. Freedom reported a low of 27 degrees. The temperatures were some of the coldest this late in spring in over the past…

Rain changed to snow for most of Midcoast Maine the morning of the 14th. Snow struggled to accumulate at lower elevations during the day, but as the sun angle got lower in the afternoon snowfall rates became moderate to heavy at times. Snowfall also remained more persistent for t…

Snow overspread the Midcoast early on the morning of the 4th. Snowfall quickly became moderate to heavy through the early afternoon hours. Snow quickly came to an end during the evening as low pressure moved into the northwest Atlantic and flow become more northwesterly, downslop…

Light snow began after midnight on the 28th. Snow became moderate at times around sunrise and again during midday. Otherwise snow remained light and tapered off in the late evening, coming to an end from northwest to southeast. Snowfall totals ranged from 5 to 8 inches.

By mid afternoon on the 3rd wind chills were reaching -30 degrees. Ambient air temperatures continued to fall into the double digits below zero with winds gusting in excess of 35 mph. The coldest wind chill values approached -45 degrees early on the 4th before winds gradually beg…

Snow began during the evening of the 22nd. Snowfall became moderate at times during the morning of the 23rd. A mesoscale band of snow set up just south of the foothills of western Maine and was nearly stationary through the day. Snowfall had a high snow to liquid ratio, and fell …

Parts of the Midcoast experienced two periods of strong to damaging winds. One during the morning hours of the 23rd generally had wind gusts in the 40 to 50 mph range. A second during the afternoon featured wind gusts around 60 mph. Numerous trees and wires were reported down in …

Light precipitation began on the morning on the 16th, mainly as a mix of mostly rain and some snow. Steady moderate snow began in the evening on the 16th and began accumulating, especially away from the coast. Precipitation tapered off during the afternoon of the 17th. Snowfall t…

On August 30th drought monitor, Waldo County was 6% in severe drought and 88% moderate drought. By the end of the month, 10% of the county was in moderate drought and 89% abnormally dry. The improved designations were the result of scattered heavy rainfall with most areas receivi…

On the August 2nd drought monitor, Waldo County was 18% in severe drought and 82% moderate drought. By the end of the month, 6% of the county was in severe drought and 88% in moderate drought. The improved designations were the result of scattered heavy rainfall with most areas r…

Snow overspread the Midcoast early in the morning on the 25th. A hybrid type snow band pushed through the area then gradually transitioned into a laterally quasi-stationary band which slid back through the area around midday. Moderate to heavy snowfall resulted from the hybrid ba…

Rain changed to snow around 8:00 pm on the 3rd. Around daybreak on the 4th the snow intensity increased and became moderate to heavy at times through mid morning. Steady light snow continued through the day and tapered off in the evening. Snowfall amounts ranged from 7 to 10 inch…

Light snow began on the morning of the 29th, with the intensity of snowfall picking up after daybreak. An intense band of snow developed around mid morning over southern New England and remained mostly over the Gulf of Maine until midday. The band backed into coastal and Midcoast…

Snow moved into the area on the evening of the 31st and continued through the morning hours on the 2nd. The bulk of the accumulation came with moderate to heavy snow in the mesoscale snow band as it moved north through western Maine. Snow continued into the evening in waves as ad…

Drought maintained through the beginning of October with no significant rainfall across the region. Things changed on October 13th when a significant rainstorm brought widespread rainfall across the region. Another significant rainstorm occurred on October 16-17th with more benef…

Drought continued to expand and intensified through the month of September with the state of Maine recording the driest September on record. D2 severe drought expanded to cover all of Western Maine by the end of the month. In addition, an area of D3 extreme drought developed acro…

Rain changed to snow across interior Waldo County in the early morning hours on May 9th and accumulated anywhere between a coating and 2 inches by midday. A few selected amounts were 2 inches in Freedom and Montville, and 1 inch in Prospect.

Precipitation overspread the Midcoast during the morning of the 9th as mostly rain at the lower elevations, and some snow mixing in at times in the higher elevations. Temperatures gradually cooled into the upper 30s, but by late afternoon heavier precipitation moved in, temperatu…

Snow moved into the Midcoast Maine during the early evening on the 23rd and quickly became moderate to heavy. Forcing was driven primarily by warm air advection and banding near the low center never made it far enough northwest to affect the area, and so came to an end in less th…

Snow began on the evening of the 18th and quickly became moderate to heavy through midnight. Snow tapered off but lingered through 6:00 am on the 19th with the approach of a cold front from the west. Snow totals ranged from 5 to 7 inches.

Little snowfall occurred December 1st through December 2nd, with precipitation remaining too far south. The majority of the accumulation came on the 3rd as surface low pressure retrograded into the Gulf of Maine. Several bands of heavy snow developed and rotated westward over wes…

Light snow began in the late evening of the 3rd. As low pressure intensified off Cape Cod an intense band of snow developed northwest of the track. The heaviest snow remained along the coast and just off shore. Snow quickly ended by mid morning. Snowfall amounts ranged from 5 to …

Snow began in the evening and quickly became moderate to heavy in the late evening. After midnight warmer air aloft allowed some of the precipitation to mix with sleet at times. The snow and sleet continued into the morning hours when precipitation quickly ended from west to east…

A band of light to moderate snow developed over parts of western Maine late in the evening of the 19th in response to warm air advection developing aloft. Several inches of snow fell before heavy snow moved into area in the early morning hours. Snow changed to significant amounts…