Lewiston Weather: Snowy winters, mud season and perfect summers
Is it going to snow, sleet, or maybe something worse? The summers are the best two weeks of the year, and the winters just don't know when to let go. Here's what else is going on around Lewiston that will impact the time you spend outside.
Greg, Our Local Expert Guiding Your Move
Greg moved to Maine before it was trendy, stayed when it got crowded, and 28 years later still loves it. He grew up here, went to UMaine, tried Connecticut, and survived eight years in Virginia before eventually packing up and moving back home. He is a former newspaper copy editor, pizza lover (Portland Pie, OTTO, & Cargo regular), and family man. At Snappy Scout, Greg helps newcomers decode Maine, a place that plays by its own rules and usually keeps them to itself.
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What's the Weather Really Like in Lewiston?
The forecast, the fashion, and the fine print locals wish someone had told them sooner.
Summer temps be like
Sunburn with a whoopie pie glaze (warm most days, a few broilers and lake days)
Winter lows are
Eyebrows freeze mid sentence (very cold, dry air bites and the wind loves your face)
The humidity makes me
questioning my choice in out of season winter cap chic
Unique weather patterns
Nor'easters with sideways snow, Androscoggin river smoke at sunrise, a heroic January thaw followed by instant ice rink streets, mud season that tells you why so many have pickups
Local weather fashion tip
Bean boots year round, hooded raincoat not umbrella, keep microspikes and a scraper in the trunk by Halloween
You know it's time to get out of town when
black flies outnumber neighbors and the lake turns bathwater, so we flee to the coast for moral support from a sea breeze
Bugs be like
black flies with PhDs, mosquitos on night shift, deer flies doing low flybys, ticks playing hide and seek
You're stuck indoors again today because
freezing rain laminated the world and the plow redecorated your driveway into a snow sculpture of despair
Green thumb enthusiasts love
long summer daylight that fattens tomatoes, peas racing trellises, rhubarb like red baseball bats, kale happy till well into leaf season, blueberries that stain every bowl
My Favorite Season in Lewiston
Winter is by far my favorite time of year in the Lew. Grab a coffee and bagel at Forage before you head to Lost Valley for a day of (affordable) downhill skiing. Then I reward myself with a stop at Gritty's for a taste of pub grub and a frosty Christmas Ale.
— Greg Reid
Maine Local Expert
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