CARIBOU, Maine — Commuters throughout the state woke up Wednesday to icy vehicles, slushy roads and even fresh snow thanks to a midweek storm.
Their ride home likely wasn’t much better, with rising air temperatures combining with the day’s precipitation to create dense fog Wednesday evening in York, Cumberland, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox and Waldo counties, according to the National Weather Service.
Points farther north also were expected to be foggy, though to a lesser extent, weather forecasters said.
The fog was expected to continue into the night, when an approaching cold front was expected to clear the area out.
The fog was expected result in poor visibility for drivers, who were encouraged to use their headlights and leave plenty of stopping distance between their and other’s vehicles.
A winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service was in effect through most of the morning Wednesday, with precipitation changing over to mostly rain and freezing drizzle as the day went on.
According to the weather service’s Caribou forecast center, snow was still falling in northern Maine Wednesday morning, but was expected to change over to rain, while coastal areas experienced only rain.
Early Wednesday afternoon, western and northern counties remained under the weather advisory while it had been lifted for most of the state.
Emera Maine reported nearly 1,400 of its customers were without power Wednesday morning, the company said in a statement.
The bulk of the outages were caused by a tree that fell onto a power line on the corner of Griffin Road and Kenduskeag Avenue, affecting customers on Union and Ohio streets and Broadway.
Power had been restored to all but 59 customers as of early Wednesday afternoon.
As of 6 p.m., neither Emera Maine nor Central Maine Power Co. were reporting outages.
Bangor Daily News writer Ryan McLaughlin contributed to this report.
