This from today’s Associate Press reports.
CARIBOU, Maine—Even by Maine's standards, January was cold and snowy.
Snowfall totals were well above average in Portland and Bangor. At the same time, temperatures were far below normal and could be in record territory when the final numbers are tallied.
For the month, Bangor's average temperature was 10.1 degrees, or 7.9 degrees below normal. Portland averaged 17.5 degrees, or 4.2 degrees below normal. And in northern Maine, Caribou's temperature averaged just 2.5 degrees, which was 7 degrees below normal.
The National Weather Service this week will compare those numbers with previous years to determine where they stand historically.
"We're pretty sure Bangor and Caribou were in the Top 10 among the coldest Januarys ever," said Ken Wallingford, a meteorologist in the weather service's office in Caribou.
Luckily it seems like I put in enough firewood.
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