Drive Carefully (Yarmouth, Caribou, Houlton: house, zip code, areas)

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go.

Here's our forecast for the holiday weekend. Be careful out there.

Winter Storm Watch in effect from late Wednesday night through Thursday evening...

Tonight
Cloudy with snow ending early. New snow accumulation an inch or less. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming light and variable.

Wednesday
Cloudy. A chance of freezing rain or rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds around 5 mph...becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
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Wednesday Night
A chance of freezing rain...snow...sleet in the evening...then steady freezing rain...sleet and snow after midnight. Snow and sleet accumulation around an inch. Potential snow and sleet accumulation 1 to 2 inches...mostly from a Houlton to Millinocket line and northward. Potential ice accumulation around a tenth of an inch mainly south of a Houlton to Millinocket line. Lows in the mid 20s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Thanksgiving Day
Sleet...freezing rain and snow. Rain in the afternoon from a Houlton to Millinocket line and southward. Patchy fog in the afternoon. Additional snow and sleet accumulation 1 to 4 inches mostly north of a Houlton to Patten line...resulting in a potential storm total of 2 to 6 inches. Additional ice accumulation a quarter to half inch. Highs in the lower 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Thursday Night
Patchy fog in the evening. Freezing rain and sleet in the evening mainly north of a Houlton to Millinocket line...with rain south of this line. Then a chance of snow showers all areas after midnight. Additional ice accumulations of a tenth to a quarter inch...resulting in a potential storm total of a quarter to three quarters. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Friday
Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Highs around 30.

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"Statement as of 4:12 PM EST on November 20, 2007

... A potential winter storm as we head into the start of the
Thanksgiving Holiday...

... Winter Storm Watch in effect from late Wednesday night through
Thursday evening...

The National Weather Service in Caribou has issued a Winter Storm
Watch... which is in effect from late Wednesday night through
Thursday evening.

A mixture of snow... sleet and freezing rain will likely overspread
much of northern Maine Wednesday night... and then continue through
Thanksgiving day. This storm has the potential to bring 7 or more
inches of snow and sleet to far northern Maine... and a half inch of
ice to portions north central Maine.

The snow... sleet and freezing rain could pose a problem for
Holiday travelers. All interests should continue to monitor the
latest forecasts and trends."

[mollysmiles]

NMLM thanks for posting that....I've been so busy that I haven't looked at the weather. We're traveling, but not until Saturday when we head to Yarmouth....we do however have people traveling to us!