To say Maine has seen its fair share of winter is something of an understatement, especially considering that the season is not yet done.

Even with daylight saving time in effect and spring a few weeks away, winter could make its reappearance this week.

Any snow that would fall in Maine would be adding to an impressive total that is more than three feet higher than usual, National Weather Service Meteorologist Bob Marine said.

This year, the Portland International Jetport (the closest measuring station to the Midcoast) recorded 91 inches of snow.

“In a normal year, (the Portland airport) gets 50.4 inches of snow,” he said. “That means that this year we've had 40.6 inches above the average.”

In Gray, where the NWS is located, Marine said 101.7 inches have fallen.

So, there's more snow than usual, but is it a record?

“Not even close,” Marine said. “The record is 141.3.”

Marine said the winter of 1970-71 is still the record holder, even after the higher-than usual snowfall incurred this winter.

“We're still a long way off (from the record),” Marine said.

This year has also featured continued cold, which has allowed the snow to stick around longer, Marine said. For a large part of the state, there's still north of two feet of snow on the ground, Marine said.

“It adds up; if you have a couple 12 to 18-inch storms and put them together in a short span of time — it adds up,” Marine said. “The amazing thing is, December, early January there wasn't a lot of snow. Then right around the middle of January into February there was a four-week period where we had big storm after big storm.”

But winter's not yet over, Marine said; if the patterns hold, this weekend could see another storm add to its snow total.

“It's still several days away,” Marine said Monday, March 9. “But it does look like it will be snow on late Saturday to Sunday morning. It has the potential to be significant.”

Early reports forecast several inches of snow as a possibility, but Marine said that it was too early to tell.

“It's a long way out; (the storm system) hasn't even formed yet,” he said. “It likely won't be developing until Friday.”

Even with all that snow on the ground, cold temperatures and potentially more snow on the way before April showers, Marine said it's too early to tell if there will be any flooding this spring.

“We do measure the rivers and we go out and measure the snow-pack,” he said. “We do surveys on the moisture content of the snow, and at this point, if it stays cold or we have a prolonged melting period, we should be OK. But it is too early to tell.”

Marine said that even if the region should get its usual amount of rain, the snow would likely soak up the moisture.

“If we get a steady melting off, we should OK, unless there was a dramatic warm-up, but it's very hard to tell right now,” he said. “If the snowpack does hang around, some of the rain events will just be sucked up by that snow, like a sponge. It's too early to tell, but we'll monitor it.”