New weather system, new snow
The snow Lincoln County was waking up to January 19 was from a different weather system than the one that dropped varying amounts of snow over the region the night of January 18, a meteorologist said.
Saturday’s storm moved on to the Canadian maritimes overnight, said Stacie Hanes, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Gray office. The one that arrived in its place was a weak, upper-level disturbance, she said.
The clearing line for the second system was around New Hampshire as of 9:30 a.m., meaning light snow was likely to continue for much of Sunday in Lincoln County, Hanes said. However, accumulations should be limited to an inch or so of additional snow. The winter landscape from it, and the coating to multiple inches, that the county got Saturday night, probably will stick around into the new week, as temperatures allow for little to no melting.
Temperatures could hit the 30s Monday, but will dip to about zero Monday night, even at the coast, Hanes said. Look for highs only in the teens Tuesday, and a dip to 4 or 5 degrees below zero Tuesday night, she said.
The latest system did not appear to be spawning slide-offs or other problems on the roads. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was reporting no accidents Sunday morning.
“I think maybe people are just getting used it,” Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter said about drivers’ adjustment to winter travel. “And maybe because it’s Sunday, a lot of people are just staying home.”
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