It may not make Peter Geiger of the Farmers’ Almanac popular, but heavy snow in December and wind gusts with precipitation this week have gone a long way toward making him right with his early winter predictions.

“Last week, I was starting to get hissed at,” Geiger joked on Wednesday.

In a span of nine days, Maine has closed out one of the snowiest Decembers on record and set a new record for high temps. The notable weather isn’t over with:

State officials spent Wednesday watching the wind, concerned about power outages in Western Maine, and a National Weather Service meteorologist in Gray forecast an inch or more of rain for Friday, creating potential for a sharp rise in river levels.

Temperatures broke a Maine record Tuesday, hitting 61 degrees in Portland, 10 degrees warmer than the previous mark. On Wednesday, the 54-degree mark reached at 3 p.m. in Portland tied the record.

“The Great Lakes are pulling warm air from the Carolinas into New England. It’s like a big conveyor belt,” meteorologist Andrew Pohl said.

He forecast temperatures in the 40s for today and Friday, with a “rain event” Friday bringing one to one-and-a-half inches of rain that’ll add to snow melt and might cause flooding.

“We have to watch this pretty close,” Pohl said.

A week after those last flakes fell, public works crews in the Twin Cities spent Wednesday catching up on snow removal. With 38.8 inches measured in Portland, December became the third-snowiest December on record, according to the National Weather Service. Lewiston’s been running an overnight shift to help clear the streets.

“They’re moving right along – of course the melting has been in our favor,” said Megan Bates, deputy director at Lewiston Public Works.

Crews in Auburn also took advantage of the nice temps to lay down temporary patches for pot holes.

Geiger, editor of the Lewiston-based Farmers’ Almanac, said it calls for more snow in January, starting on the 20th, then four or five storms in February.

“What we said is pretty much dead-on,” he said. “I hope we get more snow, a) because I want to be right, and b) there’s still plenty of winter to have fun with.”