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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Caribou ME
606 PM EDT Tue Jul 2 2024

...JUNE 2024 CLIMATE NARRATIVE FOR NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE...

JUNE 2024 FINISHED WITH SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND
NEAR AVERAGE RAINFALL FOR THE REGION AS A WHOLE.

TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION RANGED FROM AROUND 3.0 DEGREES (F)
ABOVE THE 30-YEAR 1991-2020 NORMALS OVER DOWNEAST AREAS UPWARDS
TO 4.0 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE ACROSS THE NORTH. IN CARIBOU, IT WAS
THE WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD (65.1 DEGREES), BEATING THE OLD RECORD
FROM 2021 BY 0.2 DEGREES. RECORDS IN CARIBOU DATE BACK TO 1939.
MILLINOCKET AND HOULTON BOTH HAD THEIR 6TH WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD.
MEANWHILE, BANGOR HAD ITS 11TH WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD.

INTERMITTENT WARM TO HOT SPELLS ON THE 4TH-7TH AND 18TH-20TH WERE
BROKEN BY PERIODS OF NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH OCCURRED ON LOW TERRAIN LOCATIONS ACROSS
THE NORTH AND CENTRAL ON THE 19TH AND CENTRAL AND DOWNEAST AREAS ON
THE 20TH WHEN NEAR RECORD OR RECORD HIGH TEMPS OF MID TO UPPER 90S
OCCURRED. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES AT CARIBOU ON THE 19TH
TIED THE ALL TIME RECORD OF 96 (SINCE RECORDS BEGAN THERE IN 1939),
INTERESTINGLY LAST SET ON THE SAME DATE JUST 4 YEARS PRIOR IN 2020.
FURTHERMORE, THE CALENDAR DAY LOW OF 71, WHICH TIED THE WARMEST LOW
OF RECORD AT CARIBOU, MEANT THAT JUNE 19TH 2024 AVERAGE TEMP OF 83.5
DEGREES WAS ALSO THE HOTTEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DAY OF RECORD AT
CARIBOU. OTHER DATES CARIBOU REACHED 96 DEGREES INCLUDE MAY 22ND
1977 AND JUNE 29TH 1944. BASED ON LONGER EXISTING CLIMATE RECORDS
NEARBY CARIBOU, HIGH TEMPS AT CARIBOU MAY HAVE BEEN SEVERAL DEGREES
HIGHER IN MID TO LATE AUGUST 1935 HEAT WAVE.

RAINFALL FOR THE REGION RANGED FROM 75 TO 90 PERCENT OVER DOWNEAST
AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE REGION UPWARDS TO 110 TO 125 PERCENT OF
NORMAL OVER THE NORTH. BUT EVEN ACROSS THE NORTH WHERE THE VAST
MAJORITY OF RAINFALL WAS CONCENTRATED FROM THE 9TH-11TH AND THE
23RD, MONTHLY EVAPORATION JUST UNDER 6 INCHES RESULTED IN DRY
GROUNDS AND PATCHY BROWN LAWNS AT TIMES DURING THE MONTH WITH EVEN
DRIER CONDITIONS OVER CENTRAL AND INTERIOR DOWNEAST AREAS.

ON JUNE 6TH, A SMALL AREA OF MODERATE DROUGHT (D1) WAS PRESENT NEAR
THE QUEBEC BORDER IN WESTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY PER THE US DROUGHT
MONITOR. ABNORMALLY DRY (D0) CONDITIONS WERE PRESENT OVER THE
REMAINDER OF NORTHERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY ALONG WITH NORTHWESTERN
PISCATAQUIS AND NORTHERN SOMSERSET COUNTIES. BY JUNE 27TH, NO PART
OF THE AREA WAS UNDER D1. THE AREA UNDER D0 HAD SHRUNK IN NORTHERN
AROOSTOOK COUNTY, ALONG WITH VERY SMALL PORTIONS OF PISCATAQUIS AND
SOMERSET COUNTIES.

THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER`S FORECAST FOR JULY 2024 INDICATES
SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER ODDS OF ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES WITH EQUAL
CHANCES OF BELOW, AVERAGE, OR ABOVE AVERAGE RAINFALL. NORMAL JULY
LOW TEMPERATURES FOR THE REGION ARE 55 TO 60 DEGREES AND NORMAL HIGH
TEMPEARTURES OF UPPER 70S TO AROUND 80 DEGREES.


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