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LEWISTON, MAINE - Feb. 11, 2026. Marita Bryant shovels snow in her driveway up the small snowbank she created while clearing it on Wednesday in Lewiston. Bryant, a former geology instructor, paused to share a fact: that fresh snow such as what was on the driveway, has an extremely high reflectivity, called albedo,, which makes it appear as one of the brightest measureable conditions on the albedo scale. As soon as it is scraped away to reveal patches of black asphalt, which has a much lower albedo, the snow can start to melt on its own, which helps for those trying to clear snow. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
What Maine got: Snowstorm was predicted to drop 3-6 inches
Totals for Augusta, Durham, Lewiston and Kennebunk reported.
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Bates College grounds crew member Ian Brownlie plows the sidewalk and road Wednesday in front of Whittier House on Campus Ave. in Lewiston. According to the National Weather Service, Lewiston received 2.8 inches of snow. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)A woman walks under snow-covered trees Wednesday along the Bridle Path in Kennebunk. A clipper system dropped 2-5 inches of wet snow in Maine Tuesday into Wednesday. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)No flight delays here: a turkey takes off from a tree to follow fellow turkeys toward the Androscoggin River in Durham. According to the National Weather Service, Durham received 2.3 inches of snow. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)A pickup truck travels south past snow covered trees Wednesday on Civic Center Drive in Augusta. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)Snow shoots out of a snowblower used by a man who declined to be identified Wednesday on Golder Road in East Lewiston. Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)Marita Bryant shovels snow in her driveway creating a small snowbank Wednesday in Lewiston. Bryant, a former geology instructor, paused to share the fact that fresh snow such as what was on the driveway, has an extremely high reflectivity, called albedo, which makes it appear as one of the brightest measurable conditions on the albedo scale. As soon as it is scraped away to reveal patches of black asphalt, which has a much lower albedo, the snow can start to melt on its own, which helps for those trying to clear snow. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)A Bobcat operated by Ian Brownlie of the Bates College grounds crew rolls back on three wheels as he backs off a curb Wednesday in Lewiston. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...
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Gregory got his start in journalism delivering his hometown newspaper, the Norwich Bulletin, as a teenager, reading the front page articles on dark winter mornings as he passed under streetlights.
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Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism...
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