August 2022 Climate Summary for Northern and Eastern Maine

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CLIMATE REPORT...FINAL

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME

746 PM EDT THU SEP 01 2022

...NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE AUGUST 2022 CLIMATE MONTHLY SUMMARY...

AUGUST 2022 FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE FINISHED WITH ABOVE

NORMAL TEMPERATURES, AND AT MOST LOCATIONS, ABOVE NORMAL

RAINFALL.

TEMPERATURES AVERAGED FROM 1 DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS THE FAR

NORTH TO 3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL OVER INTERIOR DOWNEAST AREAS. AT

BANGOR, THE MONTHLY AVERAGE OF 71.0 DEGREES WAS THE 11TH WARMEST

THERE SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1925, BUT NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE

WARMEST AUGUST OF RECORD OF 75.1 SET IN 1937. THE MAJORITY OF THE

DAYS WERE ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS THE REGION WITH EXCEPTIONS BEING

THE 8TH-14TH AND 26TH-28TH WHICH FEATURED BELOW AVERAGE

TEMPERATURES, MOSTLY ACROSS THE NORTH. THE WARMEST DAY WAS THE 7TH

WHERE HIGH TEMPERATURES OF LOWER 90S REACHED ABOUT AS FAR NORTH

AS PRESQUE ISLE. FAR NORTHERN AREAS, HOWEVER, ONLY EXPERIENCED

MONTHLY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S.

RAINFALL THIS MONTH RANGED FROM 75 TO 150 PERCENT OF AVERAGE,

WITH THE GREATEST TOTALS OVER CENTRAL AND LOCALIZED NORTHERN

AREAS WITH TOTALS BEING VERY DEPENDENT ON WHERE THUNDERSTORM

ACTIVITY OCCURRED WITH INDIVIDUAL COLD FRONTAL PASSAGES. THE

MONTHLY TOTAL OF 5.57 INCHES AT HOULTON WAS THE 12TH WETTEST SINCE

RECORDS BEGAN THERE IN 1948, BUT NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE WETTEST

AUGUST ON RECORD OF 9.75 INCHES SET IN 1963. BASED THE TOTAL

MONTHLY EVAPORATION OF 3.62 INCHES RECORDED AT CARIBOU, TOTAL

MONTHLY RAINFALL EXCEEDED THIS FIGURE AT MOST LOCATIONS, WITH THE

CAVEAT THAT TOTAL MONTHLY EVAPORATION WAS SOMEWHAT HIGHER OVER

SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION WHERE MONTHLY MEAN TEMPERATURES

WERE A LITTLE WARMER.

THE OUTLOOK FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER FOR THE MONTH OF

SEPTEMBER IS CALLING FOR INCREASED ODDS OF BOTH ABOVE NORMAL

TEMPERATURES AND BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL FOR THE REGION. NORMAL LOW/

HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM NORTHERN TO DOWNEAST AREAS RANGE FROM MID

40S/MID TO UPPER 60S TO UPPER 40S/LOWER 70S. AVERAGE RAINFALL FOR

THE MONTH IS A FAIRLY UNIFORM 3.50 TO 3.75 INCHES ACROSS THE

REGION.

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