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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1153 PM EDT THU MAY 16 2013

...CARIBOU AND BANGOR CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE FIRST HALF OF MAY 2013...

DURING THE FIRST HALF OF MAY THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT CARIBOU
OF 55.6 DEGREES WAS 6.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. IT WAS THE WARMEST
FIRST HALF OF MAY SINCE 2001...AND RANKED AS THE 3RD WARMEST FIRST
HALF OF MAY ON RECORD AT CARIBOU. TEMPERATURES WERE EITHER ABOVE
OR WELL ABOVE NORMAL DURING THE FIRST 12 DAYS OF THE MONTH. THERE
WERE 4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 80 DEGREES OR
WARMER FROM THE 5TH THROUGH THE 8TH. THIS TIED WITH 1999 FOR THE
MOST CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 80 DEGREES OR
WARMER SO EARLY IN THE YEAR. IN 1999 THE STRETCH OF 4 CONSECUTIVE
DAYS OCCURRED FROM MAY 3-6, 1999. THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE
MONTH OF MAY IS 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS...WHICH WAS OBSERVED FROM MAY
23-29, 1950. 

THE HIGH OF 83 DEGREES ON THE 8TH TIED THE RECORD HIGH WHICH WAS
LAST SET IN 1982. THE HIGH OF 85 DEGREES ON THE 7TH BROKE THE
DAILY RECORD OF 83 DEGREES SET IN 1964. THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 56
DEGREES ON THE 9TH TIED FOR THE WARMEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE ON
RECORD WITH 1999.

A TOTAL OF 1.1 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 
MONTH...WHICH WAS 39 HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH BELOW NORMAL.  YEAR TO 
DATE A TOTAL OF 9.61 INCHES OF RAIN (AND MELTED SNOW) HAS BEEN 
OBSERVED AT CARIBOU...WHICH IS NEARLY 2 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.  IT HAS 
BEEN THE DRIEST START TO THE YEAR SINCE 2006.

AT BANGOR...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF MAY WAS 
53.1 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.  NO NEW 
TEMPERATURES RECORDS WERE ESTABLISHED AT BANGOR DURING THE FIRST 
HALF OF THE MONTH.  

A TOTAL OF 99 HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED DURING
THE FIRST 15 DAYS OF MAY...WHICH WAS 69 HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH BELOW
NORMAL. YEAR TO DATE ONLY 7.72 INCHES OF RAIN (AND MELTED SNOW)
HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT BANGOR. IT HAS BEEN THE DRIEST START TO THE
YEAR SINCE 2001...AND THE 4TH DRIEST START TO THE YEAR SINCE
WEATHER RECORDS BEGAN IN 1926.

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