LETTER D TOWNSHIP – The first snow of the season dropped 6 to 7 inches at the Height of Land on Route 17 Sunday. Other areas in Franklin County and Oxford County also reported snowfall but in smaller amounts.
At least six people were out plowing snow Sunday, Region 3 Manager Norm Haggan of the state Department of Transportation in Dixfield said Monday.
Crews from Dallas Plantation and Eustis were out, he said.
It’s late for the first snow, Haggan said. “We usually get a plowable snowstorm in the first or second week of October,” Haggan said.
A crew member checked the snow at Height of Land about noon Monday, he said, and there was still some on the ground.
About 1 inch to 1.5 inches fell in Rangeley about 8 a.m. Sunday before it turned to rain, Haggan’s brother, National Weather Service observer Tom Haggan, said Monday. There was no snow left on the ground Monday, he added.
Farmington weather observer Dennis Pike said the town had snow mixed with rain for a very brief time between 10:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday.
The temperature dipped to 35 degrees for that half-hour and then moderated to 40 degrees, he said.
Since Sunday’s storm began, Pike said Monday afternoon, about 1.55 inches of precipitation, mostly rain, had fallen. With three weather disturbances expected before the storm is over, including Hurricane Wilma, he said 2 to 4 inches could fall.
“We’re certainly at high saturation,” Pike said
According to the National Weather Service Web site, Upper Dam on Upper Richardson Lake in Richardsontown Township in northern Oxford County also had some snowfall.
The weather service predicts rain and snow showers throughout the week in parts of Franklin County and Oxford County. Higher elevations could get 1 inch to 3 inches of snowfall with little or no accumulation in other areas. In Androscoggin County, the weather service is predicting rain with high gusts of winds at times.
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