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Today's update is presented by Downeast Aerial Photography in Rockland. For real estate, property inspections, fine art photos, family memories, or other aerial photography or video needs. DAP is fully insured and registered with the FAA. FMI check out downeastaerialphotography.com  PROGRAMMING NOTE: As I scribbled this update out around 4 AM Tuesday, I am doing better. Rest does the body good, and I have been able to get some. Changes to my diet and adding lemon to my usual 2-liter water daily intake appear to be working. Again, I appreciate your good wishes, prayers, and support. TUESDAY may not be a day for shorts and flip-flops, but it will be the warmest day in weeks. The only minus will be the lack of sun. As waves of upper-level energy pass through, the sun may poke out here and there, be dimmed, or be buried in clouds. A breeze to start the day for the north diminishes by midday. Low tide around 3 PM means ample space for a noon-time beach walk, with the wind flow generally light along the shorelines. It's a great day for all to clean up some annoying patches of ice and snow. TUESDAY NIGHT, a weak area of low pressure and its attendant cold front move in from the west. The timing of the arrival of dynamic cooling dictates early evening rain showers flipping to snow showers for the higher elevations and the north. The general idea is for an inch or less of snowfall for the western mountains, central highlands, southern Aroostook, and northward. WEDNESDAY sees any remaining snow showers over the north to end around daylight or soon after. A northwest breeze will kick up, bringing snow showers to the mountains and clearing the clouds elsewhere. It’ll be a chilly day along the Quebec border but a mild one along the coast thanks to cold air advection with downsloping wind. WEDNESDAY NIGHT: A partly to mostly cloudy sky with decreasing wind is expected. The cold air mass overhead will allow temperatures to fall back into the teens north to around 30° for southern York County. THURSDAY: A warm front moves in from the west. Snow is expected to break out across the region at the start. At this point, the impact on the morning commute appears minimal but may be a bit slick for the evening commute over the interior. The western mountains on into The County appear to stay all snow. For areas south and east of there, 1-2” of snow/slop is expected to start and then change to a brief period of junk, followed by rain from southwest to northeast, reaching eastern areas around midday. The general idea is for 1-3” of snow (higher elevations upwards of 4-5” thanks to upslope). The areas closer to the shorelines may pick up ¼-½” of rainfall. Precipitation is expected to taper off from southwest to northeast in the afternoon into the evening. A south/southeasterly wind may bring wind gusts in the 20-30 mph range for the shoreline towns and the higher peaks of the hills. THURSDAY NIGHT into FRIDAY, a cold front will work in on the heels of the system, and the week and month will end on a breezy note as cold air returns from the northwest and snow showers for the north and mountains. THE WEEKEND IDEA indicates the potential for a weak and disorganized, slow-moving system. Precipitation appears light, with the chance for interior snow and coastal rain on Saturday and snow showers for the mountains and north on Sunday. The Weather Wall with all your current |
Mike Haggett
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