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Standing water, slush, snow freezing up as coldest air of the season blows in

A blast of cold air is moving in, as Tuesday's storm moves out.

SOUTH PARIS (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- A blast of cold air is moving in, as Tuesday's storm moves out.

Snow arrived at the wrong time; it began in the early hours, just before the commute.

"It was very bad timing," Alyssa Vinton at Doe's Variety in South Paris said, adding she was "surprised the schools weren't even closed or delayed, because it was so slippery by five o'clock."

Crews were out cleaning and treating the roads all day, after about four inches of snow in South Paris.

In Newry, seven inches of snow fell.

Temperatures Wednesday will be below freezing all day. Any standing water, leftover snow or slush will freeze up solid.

High temperatures will only be in the mid to upper 20s, over 20 degrees below average. Combined with a strong wind, it will feel more like the single digits during the warmest part of the day.

"That's too cold! So this is just going to be an ice rink everywhere," Denise Morse from Norway told us.

There's another storm on Friday, and that may bring a larger portion of the state snow before any mixed precipitation.

Parts of northern Maine may stay below freezing until the weekend, a long stretch of cold weather for mid-November.

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