Storm Mostly A Miss For Southern Maine

Our small spring snow event is still on for tonight and early Monday with some areas seeing more than others.  The bulk of the storm will miss southern Maine while eastern Maine is clipped by some heavier snow as the storm departs into Canada later Monday. With some sunshine today the roads will heat up a bit under strong late March sunshine.  This will help to eventually begin melt any snow tomorrow afternoon and leave more slush rather than by  Tuesday afternoon.  Although the clouds will be present tomorrow and snow will fall first thing in the morning, after 11 a.m the sun’s higher angle is going to help the snow not stick as fast. There have been some large swings in the forecast amounts of snow in the past several days.  As a forecaster, we need to wait for the guidance we use to agree more than disagree before making a forecast.  Yesterday morning the majority of the guidance had the storm staying primarily east of Portland, those same models abruptly shifted during the afternoon, thus the changes to the forecast. Early this afternoon as more and more data is available the consensus is for the storm just to clip the coastal plain as it parallels Maine on Monday.  If anything the line of accumulating snow is a bit further east.