A pair of ducks paddle through a sea smokey Portland Harbor on Wednesday morning, Jan. 22, 2025. Sea smoke forms when frigid air mixes with a shallow layer of saturated warm air floating immediately above the ocean. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN

Tuesday night saw temperatures dip to some of the lowest the state has seen in two years.

Frigid temperatures swept across the state, with almost every major community experiencing negative overnight lows on Tuesday evening. Fryeburg’s overnight low of -21 was the coldest reported temperature last night.

See the list of overnight lows as reported by the National Weather Service below.

Androscoggin County

Lewiston/Auburn: -14 degrees 

Aroostook County

Houlton: -20 degrees

Presque Isle: -19 degrees 

Caribou: -16 degrees

Frenchville: -9 degrees

Cumberland County

Portland: -7 degrees 

Hancock County

Bar Harbor: -9 degrees 

Kennebec County 

Waterville: -10 degrees 

Augusta: -6 degrees

Knox County

Rockland: -8 degrees

Lincoln County

Wiscasset: -10 degrees

Penobscot County 

Bangor: -14 degrees

Millinocket: -13 degrees  

Piscataquis County

Greenville: -7 degrees

Oxford County

Fryeburg: -21 degrees

York County 

Sanford: -19 degrees 

Gray: -1 degree

Leela Stockley is an alumna of the University of Maine. She lives in northern Maine with her two pugs and a cat. Send videos and photo submissions to lstockley@bangordailynews.com.

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