More than 20 people were injured in the crush of semitrailers and mangled passenger vehicles Thursday afternoon on the eastbound stretch of Interstate 94 connecting Chicago with Detroit. Conditions very quickly changed from clear to near-whiteout at the time of the crash. State police Lt. Jerry Williams said there was a sudden burst of heavy […]
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Otisfield is another town to see sand and salt pile depletion
OTISFIELD — For many towns in Maine, sand has been in short supply with all of this year’s treacherous weather. Otisfield has felt the same freezing sting of sand quickly running out during a winter that feels like it will never end. Sand and salt is made available for the people of Otisfield, and residents […]
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Expect bitter cold temperatures to return Monday night
GRAY — Bitter cold temperatures are returning to Maine and will likely hang around through the end of week. James Brown, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, says temperatures are expected to dip to near or below zero throughout much of Maine Monday night. Areas in the mountains could see temperatures as […]
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Ice slickens roads, tarmac in Northern New England
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Icy conditions made travel treacherous by road and air across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on Saturday, closing roads, causing accidents and even sending a flight at Bangor International Airport skidding off a taxiway. But as the weather warmed and road crews across the region cleared ice from highways, up to […]
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Passenger jet slips off taxiway in Bangor as freezing rain pelts Maine; hundreds of accidents reported
A passenger jet slid off a taxiway at Bangor International Airport and sections of Interstate 95 were closed by extremely icy conditions Saturday that had emergency responders scrambling statewide. Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Cape Road in Hollis, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The accident happened shortly […]
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CC’s Outdoor Journal; Sledding is family fun
As much as many people dislike winter and shiver at the sound of snow, ice, and cold, me and my family are the ones who are shivering with excitement to embrace the fun that can be had. What a great start to the new year with so much snow and a bit of an ice […]
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Almanac editor, meteorologists agree — snow will stick around
GRAY — Aside from a few early snowfalls that quickly melted away, winter weather in recent years generally settled into a six- to eight-week period between January and March. This year, the state has had standing snow in many places since early December. Does that mean Mainers can expect their six- to eight-week winter penance […]
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Polar freeze spreads east, south across United States
ATLANTA — Brutal, record-breaking cold descended on the East and South, sending the mercury plummeting Tuesday into the single digits and teens from Boston, New York and Washington to Atlanta, Nashville and Birmingham — places where many people have almost no idea how to deal with freezing weather. The morning weather map for the eastern […]
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Subzero ‘polar vortex’ pushes frigid air across U.S.
Wind chill warnings stretched from Montana to Alabama. For a big chunk of the Midwest, the subzero temperatures moved in behind another winter wallop: more than a foot of snow and high winds that made traveling treacherous. Officials closed schools in cities including Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee and warned residents to stay indoors and […]