Southern Somerset storm history

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…

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 southern Kennebec River Valley on the morning of the 2nd. A nearly stationary band of snow set up over the area through the afternoon, with snow moderate to heavy at times. Snow tapered off after midnight on the 3rd. Snowfall totals range from 7 to 12 inches.

Somerset County averaged 2.18 inches of precipitation in December, approximately 1.5 inches below normal. The rainfall deficits carried over since summer grew to over 7.5 inches, making it the 3rd driest July through December stretch on record. By the end of the month, the county…

Somerset County averaged 2.61 inches of precipitation in November, approximately an inch below normal. The rainfall deficits carried over from summer grew near 6 inches, making it the 3rd driest stretch between July through November on record. By the middle of the month, the coun…

Somerset County averaged 2.53 inches of precipitation in September, approximately an inch below normal. The rainfall deficits carried over from summer grew near 5 inches, making it the 2nd driest stretch between July through September on record. The USDM on September 30th had 23%…

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…

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 th…

Snow overspread the area during the evening of the 3rd, heavy at times overnight into the morning of the 4th. The Kennebec River Valley was far enough north to be well into the colder portions of the storm, and despite the late season winter event, temperatures remained at or bel…

Snowfall rates in excess of 1 inch per hour led to snowfall totals ranging between 12 and 20 inches.

Precipitation began as light rain or a mix of rain and snow very late on the 20th, but quickly changed to moderate snowfall. In a rarity, gusty west southwest winds did to prevent precipitation from remaining snow through the overnight into the 21st. A locally heavy band of snow …

Snow moved into the western Maine mountains during the morning of the 16th, and quickly became moderate to heavy. At times during the middle of the day snowfall rates reached 1 inch per hour. By the evening of the 16th snow was tapering off and starting to mix with sleet and free…

Snow squalls arrived in the Kennebec River Valley during the early evening on the 14th. The automated weather observing equipment at the Central Maine/Norridgewock Airport observed visibility of one quarter mile with gusty winds. The squalls lasted about 20 minutes at any given l…

Precipitation began during the evening of the 9th with a band of heavy snow lifting northeastward out of the western Maine mountains. Snowfall rates were briefly 1 inch per hour, before settling to a steady light to moderate snow. Snowfall rates increased again after midnight and…

Precipitation began around midday on the 3rd as mostly snow with colder surface air locked in the interior. Some marginal surface temperatures in the Kennebec River Valley kept snowfall totals slightly lower than surrounding areas. Eventually steady snow tapered to light snow and…

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. Palmyra reported a low of 27 degrees. The temperatures were some of the coldest this late in spring in over the past…

Snow overspread the Kennebec River Valley 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 northweste…

By midday 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 -50 degrees early on the 4th before winds gradually began to d…

Snow began during the evening of the 22nd. Snowfall quickly became moderate at times before midnight, then tapered to light snow which continued through most of the day on the 23rd. The Longfellow Mountains were on the northern edge of the heaviest snow band, with snowfall totals…

Parts of the Kennebec River Valley 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 and evening featured wind gusts around 60 mph. Numerous trees and wir…

Light precipitation began on the morning on the 16th, with snow in the higher elevations and a mix of rain and snow in the valleys. Steady moderate to occasionally heavy snow began in the evening on the 16th. Precipitation tapered off during the afternoon of the 17th as upslope e…

Snow overspread the Kennebec River Valley early in the morning on the 25th. A hybrid type snow band gradually transitioned into a laterally quasi-stationary band around daybreak. Moderate to occasionally heavy snowfall continued from that time through early afternoon. The snow ta…

Rain changed to snow around 8:00 pm on the 3rd. During the early morning on the 4th the snow intensity increased and became moderate to heavy at times through mid morning. Steady snow continued through the day and tapered off in the evening. Snowfall amounts ranged from 9 to 13 i…

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 but remained mostly over the Gulf of Maine until midday. The band backed into coastal and Midcoast…

Rainfall in August was below normal for most of the region, with above normal rainfall only over southern Maine where drought conditions no longer remain. For the areas in moderate to severe drought, rainfall was 40-70% of normal for the month. Temperatures meanwhile were running…

The July 1 issuance of the U.S. Drought Monitor had 100% of Maine a drought level of D0 or greater. A moderate drought level (D1) or higher was in place for 70% of Maine. Severe drought (D2) conditions were designated for 20% of Maine over portions of Oxford, Franklin, and Somers…

The state of Maine activated its Drought Task Force. Several towns instituted voluntary water restrictions. Hydro operators balanced needs of lake levels, hydroelectric power generation needs, and the discharges to maintain stream flow needs downstream. In Maine, the South Berwic…

Snow moved into the area just after midnight 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 the western Maine mountains. Snow continued into the evening in wave…

Snow moved into west central Maine just after midnight on the 2nd. Light to moderate snow continued into the early morning hours of the 2nd before tapering off or mixing with sleet and freezing rain. Towards mid-morning steady snow moved back into the area and continued until end…

Snow moved into the area afternoon on the 5th. Snow became moderate to to heavy through the late evening under the strongest banded precipitation. Warmer temperatures in the lower elevations resulted in significantly less snow than the higher elevations of the north. Snow totals …

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 southern Somerset County in the early morning hours on May 9th and accumulated anywhere between a coating and 4.5 inches by midday. A few selected amounts were 4.2 inches in Hartland, 2.5 inches in Embden, and 1 inch in Harmony.

Precipitation overspread southern Somerset County during the morning of the 9th as mostly rain at the lower elevations, and some snow in the mountains. Temperatures gradually cooled into the upper 30s, but by late afternoon heavier precipitation moved in, temperatures fell to the…

Snow moved into the western Maine mountains 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 i…

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…

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

A band of light to moderate snow developed over the mountains and foothills of western Maine late in the evening of the 19th in response to warm air advection developing aloft. Then heavy snow moved into area in the early morning hours and continued into the afternoon. Snow chang…

Light mixed precipitation changed over to moderate snow during the morning of the 9th. A persistent north-south band of snowfall into the evening allowed accumulating snow to continue much later in the day than areas farther west.