The low which brought snow to eastern Maine during the 3rd continued to intensify while tracking across the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to Labrador during the 4th. with gusts up to around 50 mph.
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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.
The low which brought snow to eastern Maine during the 3rd continued to intensify while tracking across the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to Labrador during the 4th. The tight pressure gradient between the low and high pressure to the southwest supported sustained west to northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph...with gusts up to around 50 mph. The winds combined with recent snow to produce extensive blowing and drifting snow across portions of Aroostook county. The greatest impacts occurred on roads bordered by open fields and exposed to the winds. The blowing snow drifted across roads and reduced visibility creating very hazardous driving conditions. The drifting snow also partially melted and re-froze leaving a thin glaze of ice on roads leading to slippery roads. Several accidents were attributed to the hazardous conditions. A jail transport van and another van were involved in a head-on collision on Route 1 in Bridgewater resulting in several injuries. An ambulance responding to the initial incident was then also involved in an accident with another vehicle. The accidents led to the closure of Route 1 for several hours during the morning. Several other rural roads were closed at various times through the day. Later that evening...strong cross winds near Monticello toppled an empty tractor-trailer on Route 1.
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 Apr 3, 5:20 PM EST, 10 hours 40 minutes earlier.
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Sustained west to northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph...with gusts up to around 50 mph...created extensive blowing and drifting snow along with slippery road conditions. The hazardous travel conditions led to accidents and road closures.
Sustained west to northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph...with gusts up to around 50 mph...created extensive blowing and drifting snow along with slippery road conditions. The hazardous travel conditions led to accidents and road closures.
Sustained west to northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph...with gusts up to around 50 mph...created extensive blowing and drifting snow along with slippery road conditions. The hazardous travel conditions led to accidents and road closures.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maine in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, April 2019
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 812886, 812889, 812892.