Winter Storm Watches in Maine
399 winter storm watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 399
- Busiest year
- 201526 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 18over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:28 PM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook | 11 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:00 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 36 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:53 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 11 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:45 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 13 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:39 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 13 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:45 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis | 15 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:43 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 24 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:57 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 49 hr |
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.