FORT KENT, Maine — The good news is the winter weather advisories and hazardous weather outlooks covering Maine will expire before any Easter egg hunts Sunday morning.
The bad news is in some parts of the state people may have to dig through up to 8 inches of snow to find those eggs.
According to the National Weather Service, a winter weather advisory covers northern and central Maine from 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Between 4 and 8 inches of heavy, wet snow could fall over the area and may start out as rain in central Maine.
Winds will pick up during the day, gusting to around 30 mph, and Friday’s springlike temperatures in the 50s will drop into the 20s on Saturday.
A hazardous weather outlook for southern and western portions of the state calls for a mixed bag of rain, sleet and snow through Saturday, where some areas could see up to three inches of snow, according to the NWS.
“Easter is going to be cloudy and chilly,” Mark Bloomer, meteorologist at the NWS office in Caribou, said Friday. “We are looking at highs in the upper 20s up north and in the upper 30s Down East.”
It’s going to remain on the chilly side for the start of next week, but temperatures should start to warm up by later in the week, Bloomer said. Mainers can look forward to more seasonal average temperatures in the 40s.
