A record-early double-digit snowfall blanketed parts of Maine from a storm system that earlier brought an unprecedented early-season snow to parts of South Carolina on the first day of November.
The Aroostook County village of Cary, Maine, near the Canadian border, reported 21 inches of snow just before 7 p.m. EST Sunday. Farther south in the state while Hampden reported 15.5 inches of snow. Including these reports, at least 18 different locations in Maine have recorded 12 or more inches of snow.
Bangor (12 inches) and Caribou (10.1 inches), Maine both set their record earliest double-digit snowfall days, besting records from Nov. 15, 1962 and Nov. 20, 1945, respectively, according to the National Weather Service office in Caribou.
Snow and wind had knocked out power to some 130,000 customers in Maine alone as of Sunday evening as the heavy wet snow and 40-mph gusts brought down tree limbs and power lines. The counties of Penobscot, Hancock, Knox and Lincoln have been hardest hit thus far. The state governor declared a state of emergency and one power utility declared a "system emergency" due to the damage.
Officially, only 0.4 inches of snow was measured in Portland, Maine, and a trace was tallied at both Boston's Logan Airport and Providence, Rhode Island.
Parts of eastern Massachusetts picked up over an inch of snow, including Kingston (1.6 inches) and Assonet (1.5 inches). A light blanket of snow covered the field at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts hours before a big National Football League game between the host New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. The field was cleared of snow prior to kickoff.
http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/below-zero/record-early-snow-south-carolina-first-flakes-appalachians-new-england-great-lakes-20141101
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