Hello everyone!

Today will feature very, very cold temps with lows sitting at between 10 below and 10 above this morning with wind chills solidly blow 0. Highs today could break records as the coldest high temperature for March 24. Highs won’t get above 30 today.

Tomorrow will feature more extreme cold but the air will modify slightly so it will not be AS cold as today. Highs will struggle to break freezing tomorrow under sunny skies gradually clouding up.

Wednesday will feature the potential for a big storm. With this, about 50 miles separates a windy few inches from a 12″ blizzard. If the storm tracks as currently forecast, winds at the coast could gust to 40 mph with inland winds reaching 30. If the storm moves just 50 miles west, much higher winds can be expected.

Just for kicks, winds out over the Gulf Of Maine will be howling at over 100 mph with 35-40′ seas. Nova Scotia will be battered with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane force winds. So please don’t complain about more snow, because we could have had it a lot worse.

As for accumulations, I will not post a map today, that comes tomorrow as usual, but a dusting to an inch is a good bet for inland towns while the coast is a lot harder. Coastal York county will see 1-3″, Coastal Cumberland will see 2-4″, and anything to the east of Brunswick will likely get more than 6″. Again, the distance from Portland to the 6″+ amounts is only 25 miles. Only a 25 mile westward shift is needed to bring that 6+ to Portland.

-Jack