Overview
- Icing persisted through Monday afternoon in central and northern New Hampshire and western Maine while coastal and southern areas changed to plain rain.
- Utilities reported thousands without power early, including about 3,700 Central Maine Power customers, with crews staged for restoration.
- New Hampshire DOT said roughly 300 state plow trucks and about 325 contracted units were fully deployed, noting pretreatment is largely ineffective in freezing rain.
- Maine officials logged numerous slide-offs, crashes and reduced highway speeds, including Maine Turnpike restrictions, with no serious injuries immediately reported.
- Rain tapers late Monday before a sharp drop in temperatures and gusts near 40–60 mph Tuesday, raising risks of re-freeze, additional tree and line damage, and wind chills near zero.