Warm spell continues to break records in Maine
The Associated Press
GRAY — The National Weather Service says the warm spell is shattering records in Maine.
The temperature on Sunday rose to 76 degrees in Portland, breaking the old record of 63 degrees set in 1991.
For the second straight day, a new high was reached in Bangor, where it got up to 77 degrees. That was 11 degrees higher than the old record in 1991.
And in far northern Maine, the mercury reached 73 degrees in Caribou. That was the third consecutive day for a new high and broke the previous record of 62 degrees, in 1987.
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14 COMMENTS
heyjoe said...
Run for your lives!!!! It's called climate change!!!! aka global warming!!!!
April 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM Report abuse
Skeeziks said...
Oh the humanity
April 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM Report abuse
common_cents said...
SURPRISE...guess what's back the Green media hasn't told you about until they can spin it their way: Bob Weber The Canadian Press Published on Thursday, Apr. 01, 2010 7:15PM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Apr. 01, 2010 8:19PM EDT Arctic sea ice is nearly back to average global levels for the first time in at least a decade after years of spectacular declines. The surprise growth at a time of year when ice is normally melting has triggered a blizzard of I-told-you-sos among online climate-change skeptics. But the man whose data is behind the furor says a few weeks of cold weather in one part of the Arctic – not the end of climate change – has skewed the numbers.
April 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM Report abuse
JB said...
It says right in the article that that a few weeks of cold weather in one part of the Arctic - not the end of climate change - has skewed the numbers. Wow, I must be a talented "Green Media Spinner".
April 5, 2010 at 11:11 AM Report abuse
otisslee said...
If this is what climate change looks like, I'll take it!!
April 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM Report abuse
Hipupchuck said...
So we had global cooling from 1991 until now?
April 5, 2010 at 11:48 AM Report abuse
ModerateOne said...
Wow. The knuckle draggers find politics in a nice sunny spell.
April 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM Report abuse
Douglas said...
This is global warming, folks. Thermometers don't take sides.
April 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM Report abuse
Player said...
OMG. THe ignorance is astonishing. "Thermometers don't lie". Weather is not climate change. And yes thermometers do lie, as do the means and methods of collecting the data. And that explanation on Arctic ice is just stupid. A few weeks of cold weather in one section could not "cure" "spectacular YEARS of decline". False science. Again.
April 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM Report abuse
common_cents said...
A story buried in the Wall Street Journal revealed that NASA, keeper of infamous climate change 'models' doesn't even know what the temps were when they landed on the moon..........they finished with a quote from a NASA official on how terrible and unreliable their climate records are! JB...that ice report was from Canadians who live next to the ARCTIC; not NASA who lives in Houston. The extend of the ice is a bit more than just 'numbers', but that hard,cold stuff you warmers have fallen through recently.
April 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM Report abuse
mdenis46 said...
Does ANYONE seriously doubt that the climate in Maine, overall, has warmed since I was a kid in the 1950s? How many of you remember that it was MUCH colder then than it is now? I sure do!
April 5, 2010 at 5:52 PM Report abuse
LarrySellers said...
The FACTS are that we don't know. We simply do not know with anything greater than 50% certainty if humans are causing an appreciable shift in the climate.
April 5, 2010 at 6:46 PM Report abuse
wellwood85 said...
"Does ANYONE seriously doubt that the climate in Maine, overall, has warmed since I was a kid in the 1950s?" I thought so, too...But kids like cold and snow, and probably remember that better. Interestingly, Google has digitalized all the old Lewiston papers...Here's a couple days before Xmas 1960. Portland's high is 46, low 24. Sounds pretty similar to today: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=oQQVFBP0nzwC&dat=19601222&printsec=frontpage (These old papers are an interesting browse.)
April 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM Report abuse
Jen said...
Uh,the implications of global warming are changes in weather patterns. The actual "warming" part is only a matter of one or two degrees.
April 6, 2010 at 7:29 AM Report abuse