Michael Malone, of South Portland, takes pictures of his daughter Anna, 15, as she does handstands at Higgins Beach in Scarborough on Wednesday. Temperatures soared as the fog burned off and let the sun shine through in southern Maine.

Jaden Borden, 14, of Taunton, Massachusetts, who is visiting Maine during his school break, reaches for a flying toy disc at Higgins Beach in Scarborough on Wednesday.

Devin Sewall, of Portland, hoop dances in the sunshine in Monument Square in Portland on a record-setting warm Wednesday afternoon. "I thought, 'I have to go hoop before the winter comes back,'" Sewall said.

University of Southern Maine students Jordanna Ford, left, and Delaney O'Connor take in the unseasonably warm weather on the Old Port waterfront adjacent to the Portland Pier on Wednesday. The high temperature set a record Wednesday.

The TD Bank temperature sign reads 68 degrees on Wednesday afternoon in downtown Portland.

A woman wades into the surf with her infant on Wednesday at Higgins Beach in Scarborough. The air might have been warm, but the water temperature was 40 degrees, according to Surf-forecast.com.

Isabella Puleo, 13, of Portland, sits in the sunshine and enjoys the record-setting warm temperatures on Wednesday afternoon at Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in South Portland.