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For eastern US it's probably the Cleveland Crusher in Jan 1978. IIRC, that reached low 950s.

Southwest Harbor (Penobscot Bay) recorded a gust of 115 mph in that storm. The 957 mb reading at CAR that day is a contender for lowest pressure in New England from a non-tropical storm. At Fort Kent we had 1.5" of rain plus 0.5" flurries with wind gusting to 50 and temp 46/-11. At 1 PM it was 44, 4 PM 14, 6 PM -6. By the next day the ice holes on most roads were awesome.

Pack at Machias (20' asl) reached 74" in March 2015, likely a top-10 depth in Maine records, and by far tops for saltwater shoreline sites.

August numbers: Avg max: 76.2 +1.4 Warmest, 87 on the 6th Avg min: 54.9 +1.7 Coolest, 43 on the 31st Mean: 65.5 +1.5 Met summer: 64.6 +1.2 6th warmest of 29 Precip: 2.46" -1.58" Wettest day, 1.05" on the 3rd Like July, August 2026 started very warm then spent the rest of the month near normal. Days 1-11 were 4.4° AN, had the 6 warmest days and had 1.83" rain Days 12-31 were 0.2° AN, had no days warmer than 78 and had only 0.63" rain.

This from one who goes running in shorts at sub-50 temps. During my first visit to Maine (Boothbay Harbor/Spruce Head 1952) I went ocean swimming any time I could get a parent down to the shore to play lifeguard. Of course, 6-year-olds don't care about water temps until they turn blue. When we lived in Gardiner we had a number of visits to Popham or Reid State Parks where I did some body surfing. I will admit that I've only once found Maine salt water that was actually warm, near Otter Cliffs at Acadia on Hot Saturday (8/2/75) when BHB touched 100. It’s typically chilly with temps in the 60’s / 70’s. Water temps in 50’s .Why would anyone want or like that in the summer at the beach ? Maybe at Cutler Harbor. Midcoast and points south usually reach ocean temp in the mid-60s.

Pit2 is about 33 miles NE from PWM and 15 miles up the Kennebec estuary, which is mostly fresh water that far up - only when all the rivers feeding Merrymeeting Bay are very low does muc salt gets there. PWM is 2 miles from Casco Bay, and its 1991-2020 norm is 69". 2001-30 so far is 65", both close to ORH. Pit2 probably gets 5-10" more than the Jetport, though I'm not sure it beats ORH for retention.

PWM touched 33 on August 31. Next coldest August temp is 38. MWN had a couple inches of snow.

Maybe it's because we've had 2-3 flood watches over the past 15 days and have had only 0.18" over that period?

Fitting, as it follows the biggest bundle of meh that was 2025, probably the most boring since moving here in 1998. Maybe 1991 or 92 in Gardiner was equally meh, or 1973, our first year in Maine. (NNJ had an even higher meh rate, of course - at least since the 1956-61 pile of big snowstorms.)

Of course, though we got all of 0.03" last evening, along with a near miss TS that terrorized our dog. We've had 5 rain events in the past 2 weeks for a grand total of 0.18". drip, drip, drip

The 2 most recent events that promised widespread rain (a couple days prior to each) totaled 0.15" here, so I'm not very optimistic for today/tomorrow. Probably just enough clouds to block our view of the lunar eclipse. We're about 1-for-10 on lunars, usually due to clouds but sometimes because we don't care to get up at 2 AM to watch. This one peaks here shortly after midnight.

Reported measurable precip to Cocorahs each of 8/23,24,25. Unfortunately, those 3 "rainy" days totaled 0.04". drip, drip, drip

Remember to turn right after crossing the Sandy River. (Currently known as the Sandy Rock Garden)

Jan 2023 was 9° AN here, our mildest of 28 Januarys, and it had 29.9" snow (avg 20.2") and 101.2" total (avg 88.4"). Different ENSO (mod Nina) but the next winter was mod Nino, our mildest met winter (22-23 was 2nd mildest), and had 99". Sometimes it's nice to be north.

Our TS days in July/August has averaged a bit over 7. 2025+26 has totaled only 5 and nothing of note. Our weekend was sunless until just before sunset yesterday as the earlier forecasts of 60-70% PoP declined to 30-40%. Total 2-day precip: 0.03".