Mainers can expect another wet weekend, with a cold front and wintry mix forecast to blanket the state, according to the National Weather Service.

A mix of rain and snow starting overnight Friday into Saturday will leave roads slick and snowy by morning “pretty much everywhere in Maine except for central and southern York County,” said Mike Ekster, a meteorologist at the weather service’s Gray station.

Shane Lessard, owner of Crystal ConnXion in Waterville, shovels snow while clearing the walkway to his store earlier this week. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

“Snow will be falling everywhere else by, I’d say, 8 o’clock in the morning,” Ekster said. “Saturday is going to be pretty messy on the roads, wherever you are.”

Precipitation will continue, on and off, through Saturday night and into Sunday, possibly turning to frozen rain overnight, he said.

Daytime temperatures Saturday will be mostly freezing across the state, save for a portion of the southern coast, where highs of 33 to 34 degrees are expected. By Saturday night, temperatures will drop to the mid-20s for most of the state, with the northern tip falling to single-digit lows, according to the weather service.

Things will briefly warm up, but not necessarily dry out, on Monday, when temperatures are expected to reach the 50s and possibly the low 60s as a warm front moves north, he said.

“It may stay colder up north, in the mountain areas and central Maine,” Ekster said. “Certainly, York, Cumberland, Androscoggin counties and the Midcoast should get into the mid-50s by Monday.”

Rain will pick back up Monday night, according to the weather service.

Ekster said the early-spring storm is pretty typical for Maine, based on historical data.

“For some reason, we tend to have a pretty good storm somewhere between the last week of March and the first week of April,” Ekster said. “At least 50% of the years in the last 10 years have seen some sort of snowstorm or mixed precipitation somewhere in those two weeks.”

He noted a powerful ice storm in March 2024 and an even larger nor’easter that followed less than two weeks later, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of residents.

But he said the risk of widespread power outages appears relatively low this weekend, though there will likely be a few isolated cases.