Complex Storm System Tests Winter-Weary Mainers' Mettle

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BANGOR - Winter-weary Mainers armed themselves with shovels and salt yet again Tuesday and Wednesday to battle the effects of a wild winter storm that brought rain, hail, gusty winds, freezing rain and heavy snow to the state.

"It's a complex storm system," Mark Turner, a hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Caribou, said Wednesday morning. "We had a lot of different things going on. ... We ran the [precipitation] gamut from liquid to freezing and frozen."

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Complex Storm System Tests Winter-Weary Mainers' Mettle

Turner described a storm that split the state from west to east, bringing relatively warm weather to the east and colder weather to the west. Precipitation fell unevenly everywhere, he said, including snow amounts of 29 inches in Fort Kent, with 10-foot drifts, a...

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