BANGOR, Maine — A pair of small storms bearing down on Maine may lead to icy, snowy conditions in parts of the state Wednesday and Thursday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.
Mark Bloomer, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Caribou bureau, said Tuesday afternoon that the first storm would slide into southern and western parts of the state Tuesday evening, bringing rain with it.
As that storm moves to northern and central parts of the state, it could change to light, freezing rain. The weather service has issued a freezing rain advisory from 7 p.m Tuesday through 7 a.m. Wednesday.
“[Drivers] will want to be careful, especially across the northern, interior valleys,” Bloomer said.
“It looks like a stronger system Thursday,” he added.
The Thursday storm will start as rain but could turn to snow in the afternoon a north of Bangor.
“It’s still too early to be definitive” on how much snow will fall, Bloomer said, but 4 to 8 inches could drop in areas where the rain switches to snow. How much we see will depend on the track of the storm, “but there’s still a lot of discrepancy.”
The snow would taper off Thursday evening, potentially leaving light accumulation in the Bangor area.
This pair of storms is moving ahead of a winter storm that has been dumping snow and ice on the Midwest since Monday.
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