The Portland area was hit with up to a foot of snow Saturday night into Sunday morning, adding to the several inches already on the ground after snowfalls in recent weeks that followed a largely dry December and January.

About 8.7 inches of light, fluffy snow fell overnight at the Portland International Jetport, the National Weather Service recorded at 7 a.m. Saturday, with other parts of Greater Portland recording 8 to 12 inches.

“We saw many reports of 10 to 12 inches across the Portland area. The highest was in South Portland; they had 12.5,” said Jon Palmer, a meteorologist at the weather service’s office in Gray. “We had several reports of 11 (inches) in Cumberland and Westbrook as well.”

And more snow is forecast for the middle of this week, the weather service says.

Some of the other top snowfall totals included 12.5 inches in Buxton, 11 in Arundel and Hollis, 10.8 in Bath and Saco, 10.5 in Gorham and Limington, 10.4 in Kennebunk and 10.1 in Old Orchard Beach.

The storm was focused around the Portland area, Palmer said. Midcoast Maine mostly saw 5 to 9 inches, with even less accumulation farther north.

“The mountains didn’t really get a whole lot of snow, and the bull’s-eye was really over the Portland area with this one,” Palmer said. “There’s a snow band that kind of stalled in our area overnight that brought a lot of snow.”

In Androscoggin County, Poland led the snowfall totals with 8.5 inches, while at least 7 inches was reported in Bowdoin, Durham and Lisbon.

And in the capital region, Farmingdale recorded 4.8 inches, Gardiner 4.7 and Augusta 4.0.

On Saturday, Portland announced a citywide parking ban from 10 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday. Other municipalities, including Brunswick and Westbrook, enacted similar bans from Saturday night into early Sunday morning.

A DRY WINTER NO MORE?

Less snow fell in Portland between Oct. 1 and Jan. 30 than in any other winter in the past decade, according to the weather service. Just 16.6 inches of snow was reported in that period this winter — a major drop from 53.3 inches in 2015.

But southern Maine is starting to make up some ground this month, with about 4 inches falling in Portland in the middle of last week.

And Palmer warned that Mainers should expect even more snow Wednesday night into Thursday.

“Thursday’s event is likely going to be an all-snow event for most of the state — maybe a little bit of rain and snow mixed down towards Kittery,” he said.