902 first-hand accounts of flood events in Maine, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A cold front moved through Maine on the afternoon of April 27th. Low pressure developed on the front along the coast of Maine late in the day and produced copious amounts of rainfall across the area into the morning of the 28th.
Read the full account →An ice jam on the Aroostook River between Caribou and Fort Fairfield led to flooding which closed portions of the North Caribou Road and Strickland Road. This ice jam developed during the evening of the 20th and persisted into the afternoon of the 26th.
Read the full account →An ice jam on the Aroostook River between Caribou and Fort Fairfield led to flooding which closed portions of the North Caribou Road and Strickland Road. This ice jam developed during the evening of the 20th and persisted into the afternoon of the 26th.
Read the full account →An ice jam developed on the Pleasant River...in the vicinity of the Pleasant Street Bridge in Milo...during the afternoon of the 18th and persisted into the afternoon of the 21st. Flooding developed in the vicinity of the ice jam.
Read the full account →Hurricane Edouard moved northeastward well offshore causing over an inch of rain along the immediate coast with lesser amounts inland. Winds gusted to 33 kts at Portland with higher gusts at marine stations in the coastal waters. Mt.
Read the full account →Low pressure developed off the New Jersey coast on March 5th, then moved slowly to the waters south of Cape Cod by the morning of the 6th. The system stalled off the southern New England coast on the afternoon of the 6th, and then drifted east of the Gulf of Maine on the 7th.
Read the full account →Low pressure moved to the New Jersey coast on the 14th of February and rapidly intensified as it moved through the Gulf of Maine early on the 15th.
Read the full account →Low pressure developed over West Virginia on Saturday, the 8th, and moved northeast to central Massachusetts by Sunday morning setting up a strong, southeast flow of moist air over northern New England.
Read the full account →A warm and humid air mass was in place across the region on the afternoon of July 2nd with a stationary front to the west of the region. This set the stage for showers and thunderstorms which produced very heavy rain.
Read the full account →A warm and humid air mass was in place across the region on the afternoon of July 2nd with a stationary front to the west of the region. This set the stage for showers and thunderstorms which produced very heavy rain.
Read the full account →Low pressure moved slowly up the mid Atlantic coast late in the day on the 30th and strengthened as it moved into the Gulf of Maine on the 31st. The storm continued to intensify before moving out to sea on February 1st.
Read the full account →A warm and very humid airmass was in place across the region on the afternoon of August 28th. There was little in the way of shear and upper dynamics so storms which formed were very slow moving and produced very heavy rain in a short period of time.
Read the full account →Low pressure developed over West Virginia on Saturday, the 8th, and moved northeast to central Massachusetts by Sunday morning setting up a strong, southeast flow of moist air over northern New England.
Read the full account →Bands of rain rotated around the periphery of a slow moving, but vigorous, low pressure system from the 12th through the 15th. Extremely heavy rainfall combined with rough seas and incoming astronomical high tides to produce localized flooding along the Maine coast south of…
Read the full account →Bands of rain rotated around the periphery of a slow moving, but vigorous, low pressure system from the 12th through the 15th. Extremely heavy rainfall combined with rough seas and incoming astronomical high tides to produce localized flooding along the Maine coast south of…
Read the full account →A weakening area of low pressure was located over the state of Michigan at 7 pm on the 21st as a secondary low developed over northern Virginia. Precipitation began falling in southwestern Maine during the late afternoon and evening of the 21st.
Read the full account →Low pressure formed along the southeast U.S. coast on the morning of March 16. Strong cold high pressure was anchored over southern Canada resulting in cold temperatures over the northeast. As low pressure moved north up the coast, precipitation began as snow over Maine.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the southeastern United States on the morning of Sunday, April 15th, rapidly intensified as it slowly moved north to near New York City by the morning of Monday, April 16th.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the southeastern United States on the morning of Sunday, April 15th, rapidly intensified as it slowly moved north to near New York City by the morning of Monday, April 16th.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the southeastern United States on the morning of Sunday, April 15th, rapidly intensified as it slowly moved north to near New York City by the morning of Monday, April 16th.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the southeastern United States on the morning of Sunday, April 15th, rapidly intensified as it slowly moved north to near New York City by the morning of Monday, April 16th.
Read the full account →The highest astronomical tides of the month (11.8 feet in Portland Harbor) combined with a weak, but developing, area of low pressure (1000 mb) near Cape Cod to produce coastal flooding in the region during the late evening hours of May 25th.|Fortunately winds were relatively…
Read the full account →A low pressure system moving slowly northeast from through the Mid-Atlantic States spread rain into Maine during the afternoon of April 2. Heavy rain continued through the 3rd as the storm continued to move slowly northeast.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moving slowly northeast from through the Mid-Atlantic States spread rain into Maine during the afternoon of April 2. Heavy rain continued through the 3rd as the storm continued to move slowly northeast.
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