A widespread storm Sunday night dropped significant snowfall across much of eastern and northern Maine following a weekend of unusually low temperatures.
Parts of eastern Maine received more than a foot of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Caribou. Totals available Monday afternoon showed Hermon had the heaviest snowfall in the region, with 14 inches; elsewhere in Penobscot County, locations in greater Bangor recorded around a foot, with totals falling to just a few inches approaching Millinocket and points north.
In Hancock County, Lamoine and Surry recorded close to a foot of snow, while the western half of the county and its peninsulas saw as much as eight and as little as three inches. Washington County snowfall peaked in Cutler and Eastport with just over a foot and less than six inches inland. Aroostook County saw less than two inches.
Snowfall is expected to taper off into snow showers Monday afternoon and end after midnight, the National Weather Service said.
Schools, businesses and state offices have closed, and more than 500 people in the island town of Stonington lost power, according to Versant Power. Service there was restored before noon Monday, the company’s outage map shows.
During the storm, a private plane crashed at Bangor International Airport at 7:45 p.m. Sunday. It crashed just after takeoff and caught fire, according to the National Safety Transportation Board, which plans to investigate once weather conditions allow investigators to reach the airport.
Bangor’s police department said Monday that six people were on board, all of whom died, while federal officials had initially said eight people were on the plane with seven casualties.