While spring has technically sprung, it’s another week of winter for northern Maine — and perhaps a dash of it elsewhere.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 11 a.m. Wednesday for northern Hancock and Washington counties and all of Aroostook, Penobscot and Piscataquis counties. An advisory for northern Franklin and Somerset counties is in place from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Areas not included in the advisories can expect rain Tuesday into Wednesday, though the western mountains and northern Kennebec River Valley may see a wintry mix, according to the weather service office in Gray.

Todd Foisy, a meteorologist at the weather service office in Caribou, said the bulk of the snow will likely be early on in northern Maine.

“As we head into Tuesday night, it gets a little messier,” Foisy said in an interview Monday. “We get more of a threat of freezing rain and sleet, and some additional snowfall in the north.”

Those from Eastport to Bangor to Rangeley can expect an inch or less of snow Tuesday into Wednesday and more in the way of sleet and freezing rain, according to a forecast from the Caribou office Monday afternoon. Totals are projected to creep higher farther north, with between 1 and 3 inches expected in most of Penobscot and Piscataquis counties and southern Aroostook County. Northern Aroostook County will likely see 4 to 6 inches of snow, according to the weather service.

“That’s not the only storm,” Foisy said. “We have another one coming.”

Another weather system is expected to strike Maine late Thursday and last much of Friday, Foisy said.

“It’s a little bit tough to get into the details this far out,” Foisy warned on Monday, “but it does have potential to bring significant wind and precipitation, mainly north of Bangor.”

As of Monday, Foisy expects the Thursday and Friday precipitation to lean even more toward a mix of freezing rain and sleet than the snow totals on tap Tuesday into Wednesday.

“It’s a little easier when you’re dealing with just rain and snow,” Foisy said. “The sleet and freezing rain make travel a lot more treacherous.”

The weather service’s Gray office projects rain in southern and central Maine Thursday into Friday, and again Saturday into Sunday, but those in the western mountains and northern Kennebec River Valley once again stand a chance of seeing a wintry mix on both of those occasions.