Record Setting Warmth Ends Across Northern & Eastern Maine

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
538 PM EDT SUN SEP 28 2014

...RECORD SETTING WARMTH ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE...
...WIDESPREAD HIGHS IN THE 80S...

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS AFTERNOON AT CARIBOU WAS 84°F/28.9°C. NOT
ONLY DID THIS BREAK THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH OF 77°F/25°C SET IN
1946...IT WAS THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER SO LATE IN THE SEASON.
PRIOR TO TODAY...THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER OBSERVED SO LATE IN
THE SEASON WAS 82°F/27.8°C ON OCTOBER 9, 2011. 

AT HOULTON...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY WAS ALSO 84°F/28.9°C. THIS
BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH OF 77°F/25°C SET IN 1959. NOT ONLY
WAS IT A DAILY RECORD...BUT IT WAS ALSO THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE
EVER OBSERVED SO LATE IN THE SEASON. PRIOR TO TODAY...THE WARMEST
TEMPERATURE EVER OBSERVED SO LATE IN THE SEASON WAS 82°F/27.8°C ON
OCTOBER 9, 1970.

AT BANGOR...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY WAS ALSO A RECORD SETTING
84°F/28.9°C. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 83°F/28.3°C IN 1948.
AT BANGOR TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AS LATE
AS OCTOBER 13TH. ON OCTOBER 13, 1930, THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 92°F/33.3°C. 

AT MILLINOCKET...THE HIGH TODAY OF 85°F/29.4°C SMASHED THE OLD
RECORD OF 79°F/26.1°C SET IN 1916. IT WAS ALSO THE WARMEST
TEMPERATURE EVER OBSERVED SO LATE IN THE SEASON. PRIOR TO
TODAY...THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER OBSERVED SO LATE IN THE
SEASON WAS 83°F/28.3°C ON OCTOBER 18, 1947.

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CB