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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Caribou ME
348 PM EDT Sat Jul 5 2025

...JUNE 2025 CLIMATE NARRATIVE FOR NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE...

THE JUNE 2025 SEASON WRAPPED UP WITH GENERALLY NEAR AVERAGE
TEMPERATURES, AND SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW AVERAGE PRECIPITATION FOR
NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE.

TEMPERATURES WERE GENERALLY AROUND NORMAL FOR THE MAJORITY OF
NORTHERN MAINE, RANGING 0.5-1.5 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE. MONTHLY
AVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MAINE ONLY
DEVIATED UP TO A DEGREE WARMER FROM CLIMATE AVERAGES, WITH
MILLINOCKET SEEING THE GREATEST DEVIATION FROM NORMAL AT 1.1
DEGREES FROM NORMAL. HOULTON AVERAGED A 0.2 DEGREES DIFFERENCE
FROM NORMAL. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MAINE STATIONS DEVIATED COLDER
THAN CLIMATE AVERAGES SLIGHTLY, WITH CARIBOU BEING 0.2 DEGREES
BELOW AVERAGE, AND BANGOR BEING 0.1 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE.

THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT HEAT WAVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST ON JUNE
24TH, BREAKING MULTIPLE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS ACROSS NEW
ENGLAND. BANGOR REACHED 98 DEGREES, WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS 93
DEGREES RECORD FROM 1995. HOULTON TIED WITH THE PREVIOUS RECORD
FROM 1995, AT 92 DEGREES. CARIBOU REACHED 93 DEGREES AND
MILLINOCKET REACHED 94 DEGREES, JUST A FEW DEGREES BELOW THEIR
PREVIOUS RECORDS FROM 1995, AND 1914, RESPECTIVELY.

LOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MAINE WERE GENERALLY
WARMER THAN AVERAGE. HOULTON LOWS WERE 2.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL,
AND CARIBOU LOW TEMPERATURES WERE 0.5 DEGREES WARMER THAN AVERAGE.
MILLINOCKET LOWS WERE 0.9 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE, WHILE BANGOR
LOWS WERE 1.1 DEGREES ABOVE RECORD.

RAINFALL FOR THE REGION WAS UNDER CLIMATE NORMALS IN THE NORTH
WOODS, SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK, AND COASTAL DOWNEAST. THE CENTRAL
HIGHLANDS AND NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK WERE ABOVE CLIMATE NORMALS,
GENERALLY 100-150 PERCENT ABOVE NORMAL, WITH SOME LOCATIONS
150-200 PERCENT ABOVE NORMAL, FROM SOME HEAVY RAINFALL STORMS
OCCURRING THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, EASTERN
AROOSTOOK, AND DOWNEAST WERE GENERALLY ONLY 50-90 PERCENT OF
CLIMATE NORMALS. ON JUNE 3RD, NORTHERN MAINE WAS NOT IN ANY
DROUGHT, DUE TO ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION IN MAY. DESPITE THE
BELOW AVERAGE PRECIPITATION AND NORMAL TEMPERATURES THIS MONTH,
MAINE WAS STILL NOT IN A DROUGHT AT THE END OF JUNE. CALCULATED
SOIL MOISTURE FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER (CPC) REMAINS
ELEVATED THROUGHOUT MAINE. EVAPORATION AT CARIBOU THROUGHOUT THE
MONTH TOTALED 4.84 INCHES.

FOR THE JULY OUTLOOK, THE CPC IS CURRENTLY FORECASTING AN
ELEVATED CHANCE OF ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE NORTHEAST.
THERE ARE NO STRONG SIGNALS INDICATING ABOVE OR BELOW AVERAGE
RAINFALL FOR JULY. NORMAL JULY LOW TEMPERATURES FOR THE REGION ARE
55 TO 60 DEGREES AND NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE UPPER 70S TO
AROUND 80 DEGREES.

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