Maine, 2010Heavy Snow and High Wind in Maine, March 23 to 24, 2010
March 23 to 24, 2010 · NWS CAR · 4 events in 4 counties and zones
Low pressure tracking across the Gulf of Maine brought heavy snow to northwestern Maine through the 23rd into the morning of the 24th. Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 5 to 9 inches.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Low pressure tracking across the Gulf of Maine brought heavy snow to northwestern Maine through the 23rd into the morning of the 24th. Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 5 to 9 inches. The snow did mix with sleet and freezing rain at times.|A strong low level jet in advance of the low produced high winds across coastal Washington county from the late evening hours of the 23rd into the early morning hours of the 24th.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mar 23, 2:29 AM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 2:29 AM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Northwest Aroostook
- When
- March 23, 7:00 AM EST to March 24, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Northwest Aroostook forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 46.659, -68.599 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Storm total snow accumulation ranged from 5 to 9 inches.
Heavy Snow, Northern Somerset
- When
- March 23, 7:00 AM EST to March 24, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Northern Somerset forecast zone
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 45.514, -69.959 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Storm total snow accumulation ranged from 5 to 9 inches.
Heavy Snow, Northern Piscataquis
- When
- March 23, 7:00 AM EST to March 24, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Northern Piscataquis forecast zone
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 45.837, -69.284 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Storm total snow accumulation ranged from 5 to 9 inches.
High Wind, Coastal Washington
- When
- March 23, 8:50 PM EST to March 24, 1:00 AM EST
- Where
- Coastal Washington forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph) measured sustained
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 44.970, -67.609 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Measured sustained winds of around 40 mph occurred at West Quoddy for around an hour and a half.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Wildfire in North Carolina, March 23, 2010$1.0 million · 1 event
- Flooding in Maine, March 23 to 25, 2010$100,000 · 3 events
- Flooding in New Hampshire, March 23 to 25, 2010$50,000 · 3 events
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 23 to 24, 201021 events
- Flood in New York, March 23, 2010$25,000 · 1 event
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, March 23, 201020 events
- Dense Fog in Illinois, March 23, 201018 events
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 23 to 24, 201012 events
- Dense Fog in Missouri, March 23, 201011 events
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Colorado, March 23 to 24, 201010 events
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, March 23 to 24, 20108 events
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, March 23, 20106 events
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: 218831, 218832, 218833, 218830.