PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The U.S. East Coast was beginning a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather on Wednesday that was rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone.
Parts of Maine experienced freezing rain that caused vehicles to slide off roads followed by a deluge of rain and unseasonably high temperatures -- and the prospect of damaging winds -- all in the same day, said Derek Schroeter, a forecaster with the National Weather Service. Some schools were closed across New England.