Maine weather thread (Portland, Bangor, Caribou: counties, avg, humidity)

[Cambium]

Rain coming. See. I'm never worried about droughts. Lol

https://twitter.com/SurfSkiWxMan/sta...46496480100352

[maineguy8888]

Around this time of year I become grateful to live in Maine. We may have cold and snow, but no hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, big wild fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, deadly heat waves, major droughts, etc. etc. etc.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by maineguy8888

Around this time of year I become grateful to live in Maine. We may have cold and snow, but no hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, big wild fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, deadly heat waves, major droughts, etc. etc. etc.

Yup. I say the same thing. Even though I'd rather be in Maine, living here No tornadoes, earthquakes, big wild fires, deadly heat waves, major droughts, flooding(at least where I am located) to worry about.. and best of all, a strong sea breeze breaks apart storms like today and we don't get as hot as the interior. Same temp here as it was in Bangor. Hartford was 8 degrees hotter!

One thing that sucks is the life sucking humidity here. And I prefer temps stay below 50° all year including summer, below freezing in Fall and winter and 5+ feet of snow

[Northern Maine Land Man]

We had a major drought back around 1994. Some ponds dried up. I could walk across the Mattawamkeag River stepping from stone to stone and not get a wet foot. Back around 1978 we had to cancel a canoe trip down the St. John due to low water. We did the St. Francis and the Little Black instead, two shorter trips. There was water running south out of Quebec.

I have an old AMC river guidebook that described every canoeable stream in New England. (Spell checker wants to change that word into cannonball. My spell checker causes screen freezes if I post a list of Maine river names such as Wytopitlock, Passadumkeag, Wallamatogus and Pockwockamus.)

A family in a van pulled up to an intersection and looked around. There were no road signs. People up here generally know where they are going and road signs often end up on an office wall down in some city. Just then a trout fisherman with hip boots and a fly rod climbed over the guard rail. The driver called him over to the van.

"Where does this road go?"

Macwahoc.

Well, where does this right go?

Wytopitlock.

How about that road on our left?

Molunkus.

Well we just came through a town back there with a big bridge and a gas station. What town was that?

Mattawamkeag.

The wife leaned over and asked the driver, "What did he say dear?"

The driver replied,"Poor fellow doesn't speak English."

[Cambium]

Has it been dry? You guys aren't alone.

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[Northern Maine Land Man]

It has been dryer than normal and The Farm Report says the next 30 days will be dryer than normal and warmer than normal. I just mowed my lawn this morning for the first time and it isn't even June yet. I watch The Farm Report at 5 AM nearly every Sunday Morning. Over the years they are very accurate with their 7 day, 30 day and 90 day forecasts.

[corgis]

Humidity is relative to where a person is living. In Eastport for example, people think humidity at 34% is horrible, I think it's delightful. I love Eastport in the summer mostly because in West Virginia, the humidity can and does rise over 85% any given summer day. We'll be headed there shortly.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by corgis

Humidity is relative to where a person is living. In Eastport for example, people think humidity at 34% is horrible, I think it's delightful. I love Eastport in the summer mostly because in West Virginia, the humidity can and does rise over 85% any given summer day. We'll be headed there shortly.

Dew points are a better measure than humidity. Humidity I hope goes extinct one day. There's flaws in that. There could be less humidity in Florida but its muggier.

For instance Miami its 50% humidity right now vs Nantucket at at 73% humidity but its muggier in Miami because the DP is 66° there compared to 58° in Nantucket.

Dew point reading shows the mugginess more.

Cool thread we started on dew points... //www.city-data.com/forum/weath...nt-thread.html

[Northern Maine Land Man]

In the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, it could be 105 degrees with 100% humidity. Moisture would condense on our bodies. Sweating did not cool you. It was very difficult to stay hydrated because the water quality was so poor. We all had diarrhea. Everything was wet which was bad for electronics. Then the monsoon changed direction. It was 105 degrees, but the humidity was low. It became bearable, but the silty dust got into everything.

There is a project about Huey helicopters called "In the Shadow of the Blade.The two pilots and two gunners would sit out in front of the Huey in the shadow of the blade, waiting to be scrambled. The shadow of the blade was just wide enough to shade a man. Out there was a chance for a breeze. Inside the Huey it was like a solar oven. We were required to use green paint on the Hueys so we simply mixed black and green paint half and half. It was a really dark green. We were all somewhat dehydrated all the time.

I have pictures of helicopter crews who have white hands and tanned arms. That is because they wore gloves all the time. Everything was too hot to hold with your bare hands.

[maineguy8888]

I do not like the mugginess at all!! I can't see how anybody can live in muggy areas.
We got some good rain last night and today; pretty much all caught up for spring. (After the storms, around 8:00, everything was the most incredible yellowish glow from the light in the sky..........looked amazing).