Following a fresh 5 to nearly 10 inches of snow Saturday on top of a still deep snow cover, arctic high pressure slide down from Quebec producing all-time record cold for April. Unofficial lows of -20 were recorded this morning at Big Black River. If verified, this would be a new state record for Maine, surpassing the old record of -17.

Saturday’s snow totals.

GFS surface chart over the Northeast this AM.

TOP IMAGE CREDIT: NWS Caribou

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This morning’s temps across northern Maine at 5am.

Scene from NWS office in Caribou at sunrise where they’ve set a new all-time April record of MINUS 4F.

Bright yellows showing up on infrared this morning shows just how cold the air is over eastern Canada/northern Maine.

All-time April lows shown in dark blue.

-35C up in Schefferville, Quebec.

Not far off April record here too.

Easter Sunday was also mid winter-like across N Maine with -15F recorded at Nine Mile Bridge. -7 in Houlton was an all-time April record.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
624 AM EDT SUN APR 5 2015

…LOW TEMPERATURES OF 10 OR COLDER THIS MORNING…

LOCATION                     TEMP      TIME/DATE       LAT/LON

…AROOSTOOK COUNTY…
NINE-MILE BRIDGE             -15 F     0500 AM 04/05   46.70N/69.72W
1 NW CLAYTON LAKE            -11 F     0519 AM 04/05   46.62N/69.53W
BIG BLACK RIVER              -9 F      0500 AM 04/05   46.89N/69.75W
AROOSTOOK RIVER AT MASARDIS  -8 F      0430 AM 04/05   46.52N/68.37W
DICKEY                       -6 F      0545 AM 04/05   47.11N/69.09W
ESTCOURT STATION             -6 F      0545 AM 04/05   47.44N/69.16W
HOULTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPOR -5 F      0553 AM 04/05   46.12N/67.79W
OXBOW – MCOOP                -5 F      0515 AM 04/05   46.43N/68.55W
5 SE GRAND ISLE              -1 F      0616 AM 04/05   47.24N/68.10W
4 E NEW SWEDEN               0 F       0607 AM 04/05   46.96N/68.03W
FORT KENT                    0 F       0612 AM 04/05   47.25N/68.58W
PRESQUE ISLE AIRPORT         0 F       0615 AM 04/05   46.69N/68.04W
1 SSE PRESQUE ISLE           1 F       0559 AM 04/05   46.65N/68.01W
EAGLE LAKE                   1 F       0520 AM 04/05   47.04N/68.57W
2 NW MONTICELLO              3 F       0620 AM 04/05   46.34N/67.89W
1 ENE PRESQUE ISLE           3 F       0608 AM 04/05   46.69N/67.99W
1 NW PRESQUE ISLE            3 F       0612 AM 04/05   46.70N/68.03W
5 SSE CARIBOU                3 F       0606 AM 04/05   46.78N/67.99W
MADAWASKA                    4 F       0555 AM 04/05   47.35N/68.33W
2 W SAINT AGATHA             5 F       0600 AM 04/05   47.25N/68.35W
CARIBOU, ME                  6 F       0554 AM 04/05   46.87N/68.01W
1 W LITTLETON                8 F       0601 AM 04/05   46.23N/67.88W
3 NW MONTICELLO              8 F       0608 AM 04/05   46.36N/67.88W
FRENCHVILLE AIRPORT          8 F       0553 AM 04/05   47.28N/68.31W

…HANCOCK COUNTY…
2 N FRANKLIN                 10 F      0615 AM 04/05   44.62N/68.23W

…PENOBSCOT COUNTY…
SEBOIS RVR                   -1 F      0600 AM 04/05   46.14N/68.63W
E. BRANCH PENOBSCOT RVR      3 F       0530 AM 04/05   45.73N/68.59W
PATTEN                       4 F       0525 AM 04/05   46.03N/68.50W
MATTAWAMKEAG RIVER AT MATTAW 5 F       0515 AM 04/05   45.50N/68.31W
6 NNW MILLINOCKET            6 F       0559 AM 04/05   45.74N/68.73W
1 E MILFORD                  6 F       0531 AM 04/05   44.95N/68.61W
WEST ENFIELD                 6 F       0530 AM 04/05   45.24N/68.65W
MILLINOCKET MUNICIPAL AIRPOR 8 F       0553 AM 04/05   45.65N/68.69W

…PISCATAQUIS COUNTY…
SMITH BROOK                  -7 F      0600 AM 04/05   46.45N/68.95W
KOKADJO – MCOOP              -1 F      0545 AM 04/05   45.67N/69.45W
RIPOGENUS DAM – MCOOP        1 F       0515 AM 04/05   45.88N/69.18W
4 ESE SHIRLEY                4 F       0550 AM 04/05   45.33N/69.56W
BLANCHARD                    8 F       0530 AM 04/05   45.27N/69.58W
2 SSW LILY BAY               8 F       0615 AM 04/05   45.56N/69.57W
GREENVILLE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT 10 F      0556 AM 04/05   45.46N/69.55W

…SOMERSET COUNTY…
4 ENE BAKER LAKE             -3 F      0415 AM 04/05   46.30N/69.85W

…WASHINGTON COUNTY…
DANFORTH – MCOOP             3 F       0545 AM 04/05   45.66N/67.86W
2 ESE PRINCETON              10 F      0619 AM 04/05   45.21N/67.54W
PRINCETON – MCOOP            10 F      0525 AM 04/05   45.24N/67.63W
RVR GAGE ON OLD STREAM       10 F      0530 AM 04/05   44.94N/67.74W

OBSERVATIONS ARE COLLECTED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES WITH VARYING
EQUIPMENT AND EXPOSURE. NOT ALL DATA LISTED ARE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL.

It was an unusually cold day for Easter and early April too.

Quite the temperature spread even for the Northeast as well as the Upper Midwest. Note the 26 at Caribou, ME vs the near 60 in NYC and the 64 in Chicago vs the 31 in Marquette, MI.

It was the 2nd snowiest and coldest winter for Bangor.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
350 AM EDT SUN APR 5 2015

…CARIBOU MOVES INTO THE TOP 10 SNOWIEST WINTERS…
…A RECORD COLD START TO THE YEAR…

A TOTAL OF 7.1 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED AT CARIBOU
YESTERDAY…WHICH RAISED THE TOTAL FOR THE 2014-2015 WINTER
SEASON TO 140.6 INCHES. THIS WINTER IS NOW THE 10TH SNOWIEST ON
RECORD. HERE ARE THE TOP 10:

1.  2007-08 197.8″
2.  1954-55 181.1″
3.  1981-82 158.8″
4.  1972-73 153.0″
5.  1968-69 152.0″
6.  2013-14 150.7″
7.  1962-63 147.5″
8.  1976-77 145.9″
9.  1960-61 144.1″
10. 2014-15 140.6″ *

THROUGH 4/4/15

A TOTAL OF 1.5 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED AT BANGOR YESTERDAY…WHICH
RAISED THE TOTAL FOR THE 2014-2015 WINTER SEASON TO 134.2 INCHES.
THIS WINTER CONTINUES TO RANK AS THE 2ND SNOWIEST ON RECORD. HERE
ARE THE ALL-TIME TOP 10:

1.  1962-63 181.9″
2.  2014-15 134.2″ *
3.  1970-71 119.7:
4.  1961-62 117.5″
5.  2010-11 115.1″
6.  1968-69 114.4″
7.  1957-58 112.4″
8.  1959-60 104.2″
9.  1965-66 101.1″
10. 1954-55 100.8″

THROUGH 4/4/15

THROUGH APRIL 4TH…THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SO FAR THIS YEAR AT
BANGOR OF 16.0 DEGREES IS THE COLDEST ON RECORD…AND IS 7.8
DEGREES BELOW THE 1981-2010 AVERAGES. AT CARIBOU…THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE SO FAR THIS YEAR OF 11.3 DEGREES RANKS AS THE 2ND
COLDEST START TO THE YEAR BEHIND ONLY 1948 WHEN THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE THROUGH APRIL 4TH WAS 11.1 DEGREES. YEAR TO DATE THE
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT CARIBOU IS RUNNING 6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.

$$

CB

More tomorrow. See today’s video for the discussion.

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