Intensifying low pressure tracked along the Downeast coast from late on the 25th into the 26th. The low brought heavy snow to portions of northern Maine.
Every event with a place to put it; 10 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.
Intensifying low pressure tracked along the Downeast coast from late on the 25th into the 26th. The low brought heavy snow to portions of northern Maine. Snow developed during the evening of the 25th and persisted into the late afternoon of the 26th. Warning criteria snow accumulations occurred during the afternoon of the 26th. Storm total snow across northern Aroostook county ranged from 6 to 10 inches. Accumulations of 5 to 8 inches occurred across northern portions of both Somerset and Piscataquis counties...with 4 to 6 inches across northern Penobscot and southeast Aroostook counties.
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 25, 4:54 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 winter weather, 2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 6 to 10 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 6 to 10 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 5 to 8 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 5 to 8 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 4 to 6 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 4 to 6 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 3 to 5 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 2 to 4 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 3 to 5 inches.
Storm total snow accumulations ranged from 3 to 5 inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maine in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, March 2023
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: 1084665, 1084666, 1084667, 1084668, 1084669, 1084670, 1084671, 1084672, 1084673, 1084674.