BANGOR, Maine — Days after a winter storm dumped a foot or more of snow in some locations, Down East and northern and interior Maine could see as much as 9 inches more from Monday afternoon into late Tuesday night, according to the National Weather Service.
“It’s doesn’t really look like a major snowstorm, but we should see some measurable snow,” Joseph Hewitt, lead forecaster for the weather service’s Caribou office, said Sunday afternoon.
“It’s not going to be anywhere where it was last time,” Hewitt said, referring to the storm on Friday that dumped more than a foot of snow in Washington and Hancock counties and upward of half a foot in most of the rest of the state.
Also unlike Friday’s storm, the snow forecast for early this week will fall over a longer period, possibly over 30 to 36 hours.
A winter weather advisory was issued for 1 p.m. Monday through 7 p.m. Tuesday for coastal Down East Maine and the Bangor region.
Coastal Washington and Hancock counties are expected to be hit hardest, with 6 to 9 inches of snow forecast. Penobscot County — including Greater Bangor — and parts of Piscataquis and Somerset counties are slated to get nearly as much, with 4 to 8 inches of new snow forecast.
Forecasters in the weather service’s Gray office said Sunday that central, western and southern Maine counties will see comparatively light snow action, with 3 to 6 inches expected, with heavier totals possible near the coast. A winter weather message was in effect for roughly the lower two-thirds of the state from noon Monday through noon Tuesday.
Far northern Maine is expected to see 3 to 5 inches of snow.
In Bangor, where nearly 11 inches of snow fell Friday, a downtown parking ban was in effect from 11 p.m. Sunday through 7 a.m. Monday to facilitate snow removal, the city’s Public Works Department said.
Looking further ahead, the weather service predicted a deep freeze beginning Friday and expected to last through the weekend, noting that temperatures could be some of the lowest so far this season.