By Natalie De La Garza
Staff Writer
CARIBOU, Maine — It’s been a consistently snowy December to the extent that a new record has been broken.
As announced by the Caribou office of the National Weather Service, the most northeastern city in the country has set an all-time record for consecutive days of measurable snowfall from Dec. 15 through Dec. 27. Meteorologists at the Caribou NOAA office Corey Bogel complied the data, which indicated that Caribou received 35.9 inches of snow over the course of 13 days.
The daily snow amounts are:
Dec. 15, 15.5 inches,
Dec. 16, 0.9 inches,
Dec. 17, 0.1 inches,
Dec. 18, 0.8 inches,
Dec. 19, 0.7 inches,
Dec. 20, 3.3 inches,
Dec. 21, 1.5 inches,
Dec. 22, 5.8 inches,
Dec. 23, 2.0 inches,
Dec. 24, 0.6 inches,
Dec. 25, 0.1 inches,
Dec. 26, 4.5 inches,
And on Dec. 27, through the morning, Caribou received 0.1 inches of snow.
According to Bogel, the old record was nine consecutive days of snow, recorded in January of 1991 and February of 1960.
Overall, Caribou has had 20 days of measurable snowfall in December.
The weather report also stated that as of Dec. 27,December’s total snowfall of 40.4 inches is 21.6 inches above normal snowfall and ranks sixth amongst Caribou’s Snowiest Decembers on record (dating back to 1939). Caribou’s snowiest December was set in 1972 with 59.9 inches of snow, which holds a dual record for also the all-time snowiest month in Caribou.
January’s off to a chilling start as temperatures are expected to drop to nearly negative 30 degrees tomorrow.
Meteorologists at the Caribou NOAA office are predicting a high of -3 on New Year’s Day, with a low of -28 that evening.
