Fall 2022 Climate Summary For Northern And Eastern Maine

...NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE CLIMATE 2022 FALL (SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER)

SUMMARY...

FALL 2022 ACROSS NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE FINISHED WITH

SIGNIFICANTLY WARMER THAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES, MOSTLY ABOVE 

AVERAGE PRECIPITATION, AND MOSTLY BELOW NORMAL SNOWFALL ACROSS 

THE REGION AS A WHOLE. 

AMONGST THE WEATHER ELEMENTS THIS SEASON, TEMPERATURE WAS THE MOST

UNIFORM ACROSS THE REGION AVERAGING 2 TO 3 DEGREES ABOVE THE

1991-2020 CLIMATE REFERENCE PERIOD. THROUGH SEPTEMBER UNTIL

ABOUT OCTOBER 12TH, TEMPERATURES WERE GENERALLY NEAR NORMAL. 

TEMPERATURES THEN WERE MOSTLY ABOVE TO MUCH ABOVE NORMAL FROM 

OCTOBER 13TH UNTIL NOVEMBER 12TH. THE REST OF NOVEMBER MOSTLY 

FINISHED WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION. THE 

MOST ANOMALOUS WARMTH OF THE SEASON OCCURRED BETWEEN NOVEMBER 

4TH-7TH WITH DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES RANGING UPWARDS OF +15 

TO +30 DEGREES OF NORMAL DAILY AVERAGES WITH ACTUAL HIGH 

TEMPERATURES REACHING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 70S ON NOVEMBER 5TH 

AND 6TH AND DOWNEAST AREAS ON THE 7TH. RECORD MONTHLY WARM DAILY 

MINIMUM TEMPERATURES ON NOVEMBER 6TH ACROSS THE REGION WERE MORE 

TYPICAL OF AVERAGE JULY MINIMUM TEMPS. ACTUAL WARMEST HIGH 

TEMPERATURES, HOWEVER, OCCURRED BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 9TH-12TH WERE 

MOST LOCATIONS REACHED THE LOWER TO MID 80S. AVERAGE FALL 

TEMPERATURES OF 47.0 AT CARIBOU, 47.9 AT HOULTON, 49.2 AT 

MILLINOCKET, AND 50.9 AT BANGOR WERE THE 5TH, 3RD, 3RD, AND 9TH 

WARMEST. RESPECTFULLY, AT EACH CLIMATE STATION.

TOTAL PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION WAS MORE VARIABLE, RANGING

FROM ABOUT 110 PERCENT OF AVERAGE ACROSS THE FAR NORTH UPWARDS TO

160 PERCENT OF AVERAGE OVER CENTRAL AND DOWNEAST AREAS. DOWNEAST

AREAS HAD MOSTLY ABOVE AVERAGE RAINFALL EACH MONTH THIS FALL

(ESPECIALLY OCTOBER), WHILE NORTHERN AREAS BEGAN THE FALL WITH A 

DRY SEPTEMBER GOING TO ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION IN OCTOBER AND 

NOVEMBER. PRECIPITATION TOTALS OF 17.25 INCHES AT MILLINOCKET AND 

18.93 INCHES AT BANGOR FINISHED AS THE 4TH AND 2ND WETTEST FALLS,

RESPECTFULLY.

LASTLY, TOTAL SNOWFALL ACROSS THE REGION THIS FALL, OCCURRING 

EXCLUSIVELY IN NOVEMBER OUTSIDE OF VERY HIGH TERRAIN, RANGED FROM 

NEAR ZERO ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST UPWARDS TO NEAR 24 INCHES 

(ABOUT 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL) OVER THE NORTHWEST AND FAR NORTHERN 

SAINT JOHN VALLEY AREAS. MOST LOCATIONS, HOWEVER, EXPERIENCING 10+

INCHES WERE ALONG AND NORTH OF A GREENVILLE TO MARS HILL LINE, 

WITH COMPARATIVELY LITTLE SNOWFALL SOUTH OF HOULTON-MILLINOCKET-

DOVER FOXCROFT LINE. SNOWFALL EVENTS BEGAN OCCURRING MOSTLY 

ACROSS THE NORTH HALF OF THE REGION WITH THE TEMPERATURE REGIME 

CHANGE AFTER NOVEMBER 12TH.

THE OFFICIAL CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER'S OUTLOOK FOR WINTER

(DECEMBER-FEBRUARY) FOR OUR REGION IS CALLING FOR SOMEWHAT 

INCREASED ODDS FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND ABOUT EQUAL ODDS 

OF BELOW, NEAR NORMAL, AND ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION, TO PERHAPS

VERY SLIGHTLY FAVORING ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION ODDS OVER THE 

NORTHWEST THIRD.