Staff Writer
CARIBOU — Mother Nature sure wasn’t in a hurry to bring winter to the county this year, but it looks like the snow is here for good this time. While the Sunday night/ Monday morning snowfall left anywhere from 2 to 4.5 inches of snow, (just enough to leave the roads slippery for motorists), November failed to produce the average 12 inches of snow of seasons past. Slushy flurries began on Friday and Saturday night, but it wasn’t until Sunday that the snow began to seriously stick.
According to Mike Cantin, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Caribou, Mars Hill received the greatest amount of snow at 4.5 inches, Presque Isle received 3.5 inches, and Caribou received 3.1 inches of snow.
“Typically, for the month of November, we average just under 12 inches of snow, so getting three to four inches still puts us below normal snowfall amounts,” Cantin said, “but where we typically average about an inch of snow in October, we had about six inches, so we’re just below the snowfall average.
While Cantin wouldn’t currently rule out the possibility of another thaw, the further time brings us to the depths of the season, the less likely it is that lawns will be visible until spring.
“At least for now, it looks like we’re staying cold enough and the ground has been cold enough for the snow to stick around,” he said.
More precipitation looks to be on the way for Thursday. Meteorologists are predicting that the day will start out with a mix of precipitation that will turn to rain, but information was still being interpreted as of Tuesday morning.
