PORTLAND, Maine — The calendar still says winter, but Maine is experiencing springlike weather.
The National Weather Service said the temperature climbed to 60 degrees Thursday afternoon in Portland. The high for the date was 56, set two years ago.
Meteorologist Tom Hawley says the forecast calls for above-normal temperatures for the next two weeks, meaning winter weather is effectively over for the season.
Portland stands at 49.8 inches of snow for the season. That’s about 6 inches below normal, and the total would have been lower without the early Halloween storm.
But winter weather remains a possibility after the balmy stretch. Portland saw 10 inches of snow during an April Fool’s storm last year.
The National Weather Service reported the high temperature in Bangor on Thursday was 58 degrees.
Bring it on. Hopefully I’ll live long enough to see Florida winters in Maine.
A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather. I’m not sure that <24 hours qualifies. Although I suppose we all have days that seem prolonged.
BDN used a headline that made us all click through. They don’t care if it is syntactically or semantically correct.
You should.
I clicked through only to comment on the improper use of the word “heatwave.” Like ryanrobbins, I find BDN’s editing atrocious. One would think that if they want to remain a viable entity they would set the bar a bit higher.
Its expected to be temperatures above normal into next week, I think thats longer than 24 hours
And you think above normal in March is excessively hot? What ever will you do come August?
Not only that, it requires two or more consecutive days with a high temperature each day of uncomfortablly hot and humid air, according to the National Weather Service. Unfortunately, the desire to be accurate is all but gone from the paper, as either the copy editors have all been fired or inexperienced editors have taken their place.
” We’re having a heatwave!! A tropical heat wave.”
Grumpy Old Men (LOL)
Work with me here BDN.
Pucker your lips and say Glo Repeat it say Glo Repeat it say Glo
good now wipe some of the spittle off your chin
Pucker your lips again and say bal Repeat it say bal once more bal Good boys and girls.
Now put them together Global once more Global last time Global
Great! now that didn’t hurt. You didn’t loose any car ads revenue, eh?
Tomorrow we will work on the word Warming. That’s right boys and girls
you will soon be able to say Global Warming in msfreeh’s Lexiconhood
Unbelievable………
I was waiting for the first person to attribute this to global warming. msfreeh wins the prize for confusing weather with climate!! Woohoo!!
Or maybe weather can only be confused with climate when we have a stretch of colder-than-normal temps…at least that’s what the Chicken Little AGW Alarmists tell us.
Well you do your dada and I will do my data
In 2002 we brought Pulitzer Prize winner Ross Gelbspan to the Univ Maine Farmington to discuss Climate Change and Global Warming. Ross has written two books about these subjects.
They are: THE HEAT IS ON and BOILING POINT
visit his website http://www.heatisonline.org
Here is another resource for you. http://www.skepticalscience.com/
Maybe someday dada will tell you about how he leads the fight against global warming science.
After all he has dirigo in dada’s name,eh?
Until then let’s talk about the ratio of record high temperature days versus record law temperature days.
see http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds/
also see
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/the-winter-that-wasnt-checks-in-at-4th-warmest-ever/
The warm weather led to a skewed relationship between warm temperature
records and cold temperature records across the country. NOAA reported
that there were more than 800 daily high temperature records and more
than 1,200 record warm daily low temperature records set during February
2012. This compares to just 200 or so daily record cold temperatures,
and about the same number of record cold daily high temperatures.
Halloween does not happen in Winter. How is this in the stats?
Good ole global warming…..Yeah Baby!!!!