Rapidly intensifying low pressure tracked along the Downeast coast to eastern Maine from the night of the 8th through the 9th. with heavier snow arriving through the night of the 8th into the early morning hours of the 9th.
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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.
Rapidly intensifying low pressure tracked along the Downeast coast to eastern Maine from the night of the 8th through the 9th. Light overrunning snows developed during the 8th...with heavier snow arriving through the night of the 8th into the early morning hours of the 9th. Deformation zone snows then persisted through the afternoon and early evening of the 9th...diminishing late evening. Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour occurred at times during the afternoon of the 9th. Warning criteria snow accumulations occurred through the afternoon and evening of the 9th. Storm total snow accumulations generally ranged from 8 to 13 inches. Gusty winds in the wake of the storm produced areas of blowing snow across northern areas during the 10th.
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 8, 5:58 AM EST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
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8 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 7 to 10 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 9 to 14 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 9 to 13 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 9 to 13 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 8 to 12 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 9 to 13 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 8 to 11 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 7 to 12 inches.
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, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 803739, 803740, 803741, 803742, 803743, 803744, 803745, 803746.