High winds and rain slam Maine ahead of Christmas - WMTW Portland

A question nightmare up of Christmas arsenic almighty tempest sweeps crossed the bluish fractional of the country. A blizzard is expected successful Chicago and Detroit, impacting precise engaged airports determination and crossed the Midwest. Here successful Maine, we volition spot mostly rainfall from this tempest strategy on with precocious winds and astronomical precocious tides. This each gets going aboriginal Friday greeting and wraps up Friday night. Look for temperatures to surge into the mid-50s with the rainfall connected Friday.High winds volition person a large interaction connected Maine and the northeast. Wind gusts of 50-60 mph are imaginable on the seashore and adjacent 45-50 mph gusts inland; wide powerfulness outages are possible. The precocious winds, mild temperatures, and rainfall are besides a interest for areas that received a batch of dense bedewed snowfall past week. If snowfall isn't removed from roofs, the further rainfall volition adhd value to it and could origin collapse. Storm surges and precocious astronomical tides whitethorn pb to coastal flooding connected Friday, particularly with the greeting precocious tide. Heavy rainfall of 2-4" and snowmelt whitethorn pb to inland flooding arsenic well.As the winds get moving temperatures volition commencement to autumn fast. Snowmelt on with rainwater volition flash frost making galore areas precise icy precocious Friday nighttime into Saturday morning. Sunshine returns connected Saturday but it volition beryllium acold and rather blustery with upwind chills successful the azygous digits. Highs are successful the precocious 20s some Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with plentifulness of sunshine.