Northern New England — facing its first major midweek storm forecast of 2013 — wound up at midday with the storm that wasn’t.

New Hampshire Emergency Management spokesman Jim Van Dongen says the storm seems to be petering out and everyone in his agency is fine with that.

But meteorologists at the National Weather Service headquarters in Gray say it’s not over yet. Storm warnings remain in effect for central New Hampshire, southeastern Vermont and inland Maine.

Maine meteorologists forecast as much as 6 to 10 inches of snow in the Lewiston area. Local schools canceled classes in anticipation of a major storm.

While snow was falling on the southern part of the state early Wednesday afternoon, state police haven’t had to deal with many accidents on the Maine Turnpike.

But the Maine Department of Transportation reports two accidents on Interstate 95 on Wednesday afternoon:

• Southbound at Mile 45, Scarborough
• Northbound at Mile 37, Saco
• Northbound at Mile 34, Biddeford 

Speed restrictions were posted on the southern portions of interstates 95 and 295.

Just before 3 p.m., forecaster James Brown in Gray said the snow was falling steadily and starting to accumulate.

“Down in our area we are starting to see some changeover [from rain] to snow and starting to see some accumulation,” Brown said from the weather service’s Gray office. “Heavier bands are moving in.”

Flights at the state’s two major airports were mostly on schedule.

Only two scheduled Wednesday flights out of Portland International Jetport, a 9:15 a.m. departure to Philadelphia and a 5 p.m. flight to Toronto, were canceled. All flights from Bangor International Airport departed as scheduled.

Meteorologist James Brown says he still expects many residents of northern New England will wake up Thursday to 6-12 inches of snow.

Some ski areas in Vermont and New Hampshire by midday Wednesday were reporting seven inches of new snow.

National Weather Service meteorologist James Brown said that atop Mount Washington at 2 p.m. it was 14 degrees — cold air the storm system would have to bring down to make the snow accumulations to match the forecast. Brown said he still expected much of northern New England to wake up Thursday to accumulations of 6 to 12 inches.

New Hampshire officials say they had no reports of power outages.

Information from the Bangor Daily News was used in this report