Forecasters: Maine Snowpack Reduced Due To Warmer-Than-Average January

MAINE PUBLIC • January 22, 2021

While Maine winters are legendary for their severity, so far, this one has so far been relatively mild. “Temperatures are tending to run in Portland closer to 40 degrees when the normal high is much closer to 30 degrees,” says Mika Cempa with the National Weather Service in Gray. Cempa says the same phenomenon is being seen all over the state, with temperatures running 4-9 degrees above where they should be, and none of the subzero temperatures that normally come with a Maine January.