Wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero occurred across the region.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS CAR wrote it up.
Wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero occurred across the region.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 25, 3:23 PM EST, 9 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
323 PM EST THU JAN 25 2007
.SYNOPSIS...
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD SLOWLY EAST ACROSS THE REGION AS LOW
PRESSURE RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES OFF THE EAST COAST AND LIFTS TOWARD
EASTERN NOVA SCOTIA FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. WINDS WILL INCREASE
ACROSS THE REGION AND COMBINE WITH BITTER ARCTIC AIR TO PRODUCE
DANGEROUS WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY.
&&
.SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
MODELS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT IN STRENGTHENING POLAR VORTEX
AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST FROM QUEBEC PROVINCE AND ACROSS THE REGION
TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. THE CORE OF THE COLDEST AIR STAYS JUST TO THE
WEST OF THE CWA...HOWEVER LOW LEVEL TEMPERATURES STILL WILL BE
AROUND MINUS 25 DEG C AT 850/925 MB ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN
MAINE LATER TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY.
BENEATH THE POLAR VORTEX...RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING OCEAN STORM
COMBINES WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING EAST TO ENHANCE THE PRESSURE
GRADIENT ACROSS THE REGION LATER TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.
WILL ISSUE WIND CHILL WARNINGS FOR THE WESTERN ZONES AND WIND
CHILL ADVISORIES ELSEWHERE FOR LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. WIND
CHILL CRITERIA WILL STILL BE MET FRIDAY NIGHT...HOWEVER LET
MID SHIFT EVALUATE FOR THE THIRD PERIOD OF THE FORECAST.
LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CLOUDS BEGINNING TO MOVE
SOUTHEAST FROM JAMES BAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE POLAR VORTEX.
EXPECT THESE CLOUDS TO MOVE INTO THE CWA LATE TONIGHT /AFTER
TEMPERATURES HAVE FALLEN OFF RAPIDLY THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT/.
WITH THE LOW LEVEL TRAJECTORY MOVING ACROSS THE SAINT LAWRENCE
RIVER...EXPECT SCATTERED FLURRIES TO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.
EXPECT CLOUDS TO DECREASE ACROSS DOWNEAST WITH DOWNSLOPE WINDS IN
FULL FORCE WHILE SOME CLOUDS HOLD ON IT UPSLOPE AREAS FRIDAY NIGHT.
SURFACE GRADIENT GRADUALLY DIMINISHES WITH DEEP SURFACE LOW MOVING
EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN DURING EARLY
SATURDAY. WEAK CLIPPER TYPE SYSTEM WILL INCREASE CLOUDS LATER
SATURDAY. WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE POPS ACROSS THE CWA WITH THIS
SYSTEM MOVING JUST SOUTH OF THE REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
&&
.LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/...
BOTH NAM12 AND GFS INDICATE WEAK LOW PRESSURE WILL PASS TO THE
SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. MAV/MET GUIDANCE LOOK A
LITTLE LOW FOR THIS PERIOD SO HAVE INCREASED POPS ABOVE MOS.
ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PASS WELL SOUTH OF THE
FORECAST AREA SUNDAY NIGHT BUT TOO FAR SOUTH FOR ANY INCREASE IN
POPS OVER OUR FORECAST AREA...AT LEASE UNTIL 12Z. FOR TEMPERATURES
HAVE USED MAV/MET COMBINATION FOR SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY THEN
MANUALLY ADJUSTED NUMBERS SUNDAY NIGHT. WINDS GENERATED WITH
MAV/MET MOS COMBINATION. HAVE MANUALLY CREATED POP GRIDS.
TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...LOADED HPC GRIDS AND ONLY MADE MINOR
CHANGES. WEATHER PATTERN IN THIS PERIOD IS PRETTY QUIET WITH
PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND A CONTINUATION OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES.
&&
.AVIATION /19Z-18Z/...
MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS EXCEPT FOR NORTHERN
MAINE WHICH WILL TRANSITION TO MVFR CEILINGS TOMORROW MORNING.
&&
.MARINE...
SHORT TERM: MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING
LOW WELL EAST OF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST DURING FRIDAY AND MOVING
IT TO THE EASTERN END OF NOVA SCOTIA BY SATURDAY MORNING. WITH
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE WEST TIGHTENING THE
GRADIENT AND INTENSE CAA INTERACTING WITH THE RELATIVELY WARMER
COASTAL WATERS...WILL ISSUE A GALE WARNING FROM MID AFTERNOON
FRIDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. EXPECT STRONG SCA CONDITIONS FOR A
TIME AFTER 10Z SATURDAY MORNING THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS WEAK
RIDGE BUILDS IN SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
INTERMEDIATE/LONG TERM: HAVE USED A 50/50 BLEND OF THE NAM12 AND
GFS TO INITIALIZE THE WIND GRIDS THE HAVE INCREASED WINDS
SLIGHTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE NUMBERS SATURDAY NIGHT WITH COLD AIR MASS
OVER COASTAL WATERS. FOR WAVES HAVE INITIALIZED GRIDS WITH WNA
WAVE WATCH III. WILL KEEP WAVES NO LOWER THAN 2 FEET SATURDAY
NIGHT INTO SUNDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR BACKGROUND SWELL. LATER SUNDAY
SPECTRAL DATA INDICATE SOUTHERLY SWELL FIELD SO HAVE INCREASED
WAVES 1 FOOT ABOVE WAVE MODEL.
&&
.CAR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ME...WIND CHILL ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 5 PM EST FRIDAY
FOR MEZ002-005-006-011-015>017-029>032.
WIND CHILL WARNING FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 5 PM EST FRIDAY
FOR MEZ001-003-004-010.
MARINE...GALE WARNING FROM 3 PM FRIDAY TO 4 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ANZ050.
&&
SHORT TERM/MARINE...FITZSIMMONS
LONG TERM/MARINE...MIGNONE/WEITLICH
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
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Wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero occurred.|
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maine in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, January 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9024, 9025, 9026, 9027.