Adam Turner takes a break from bike driving to benefit from the unseasonably heat climate on the Japanese Promenade on Sunday. Brianna Soukup/Workers Photographer
Every week after Halloween, as shops fill up for Thanksgiving and Portland prepares for its Nov. 25 Christmas Tree lighting, it regarded extra like the top of summer season than the center of fall.
Loads of folks had been exterior in shorts Sunday, whereas biking, strolling or raking leaves, as unseasonably heat climate continued throughout Maine.
A day after Portland hit 75 levels, setting a file for any day in November, Augusta set a brand new mark for the second straight day with a excessive of 72. Town’s earlier excessive on Nov. 6 was 66 levels in 2020, stated Jerry Combs, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service. Augusta noticed a temperature of 76 levels on Saturday.
Portland’s excessive on Sunday was 68, 2 levels shy of breaking its file of 71, additionally in 2020, Combs stated.
“And we may have one other day of file excessive by way of Monday,” he stated. The forecast requires temperatures to succeed in the low to mid-70s from Augusta to York.
Portland’s file excessive for Nov. 7 is 74 levels from 2020, “so it’s going to be fairly near breaking the file,” Combs stated.
Monday morning appears cloudy, however skies will filter out with the afternoon warming up properly, he stated.
Whereas the nice and cozy stretch could also be a forbidding signal of local weather change to some, the weekend climate did immediate some smiles, to not point out a break from turning on the warmth.
The climate has been “unbelievable,” stated Bob Hannigan of Hannigan’s Island Market on Peaks Island.
Paige Clever and Bryce Nemeth drink beers on the patio of Thirsty Pig in Portland on Sunday. Brianna Soukup/Workers Photographe
Looking his window, he noticed a boatload of day-trippers disembarking from the ferry.
“That is an extreme crowd for November,” he stated, noting that his complete workers had been all carrying shorts.
Portland Police Officer Rob Lauterbach, who’s assigned to Peaks Island, stated there have been lots of people exterior having fun with the day as if it had been summer season, driving bicycles and in golf carts. “It’s stunning,” Lauterbach stated.
However earlier than 6 p.m., when the solar disappears on the primary day after turning again the clocks, “it’ll be chilly,” he stated.
Very quickly it’ll be sweater time once more. A chilly entrance is predicted to reach Tuesday, bringing extra typical November climate, with lows within the 20s and 30s, and highs within the 40s and 50s. Some wind may make it really feel even cooler.
However then on Thursday, temperatures are forecast to rebound to the 60s once more – “like a curler coaster,” Combs stated.
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