At a Glance

Caribou, Maine, has topped its snowiest January on record.The city came up just shy of tying the record for its all-time snowiest month.Caribou has already surpassed its average seasonal snowfall.

Caribou, Maine, picked up almost 60 inches of snow in January 2019, the city's snowiest January on record, but just short of its all-time snowiest month in recorded history.

A whopping 59.8 inches of snowfall was tallied in the northeastern Maine city in January, alone, just under 3 feet above average, and over 15 inches greater than its previous snowiest January – 44.5 inches in 1994.

January 2019 ranked as Caribou's second-snowiest month on record, behind only December 1972, which brought 59.9 inches to Caribou.

Season-to-date snowfall through Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 is plotted in various colors on the map, denoted by the legend in the upper-right corner.

Weather records in Caribou , according to the National Weather Service.

was responsible for a significant margin of the month's snowfall Jan. 20 to 21. It dropped 18.2 inches of snow during that two-day period, 16.9 inches of which fell on Jan. 20 alone, a daily snowfall record for that date.

Following Harper's heavy snowfall, Caribou had a 32-inch snowpack – just 4 inches shy of 3 feet – on the ground last Monday morning. That snow was blown around into impressive drifts, some so tall that meteorologists at the NWS office in Caribou could not see out the front window of their office.

The shallowest snowpack Caribou had all month was 13 inches on New Year's Day, so snow boots have been a necessity for the city's nearly 8,000 residents.

Based on 1981-2010 data, Caribou averages 108.7 inches of snow each winter. Its season-to-date snowfall through January stood at 111.6 inches, so it already surpassed its seasonal average with about three months to go before the snow season typically ends in northeastern Maine.

April 25 is when the city's last measurable snow (at least 0.1 inches) of the season falls in an average year. However, measurable snow has been recorded as late as May 25 in Caribou, which occurred in 1974.

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