CXUS51 KCAR 012204 CLMBGR CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 604 PM EDT FRI NOV 01 2024 ................................... ...THE BANGOR ME CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2024... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1925 TO 2024 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR'S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 92 10/13/1930 LOW 11 10/30/1941 HIGHEST 78 10/31 MM MM 83 10/03 LOWEST 17 10/29 MM MM 30 10/31 AVG. MAXIMUM 61.1 58.2 2.9 63.0 AVG. MINIMUM 38.8 38.2 0.6 46.3 MEAN 50.0 48.2 1.8 54.6 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 6 8.8 -2.8 2 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 13.32 2005 MINIMUM 0.99 1986 TOTALS 1.32 -3.26 DAILY AVG. 0.04 0.15 -0.11 0.21 DAYS >= .01 10 11.4 -1.4 12 DAYS >= .10 3 7.7 -4.7 6 DAYS >= .50 0 2.9 -2.9 3 DAYS >= 1.00 0 1.3 -1.3 3 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.55 10/13 TO 10/14 3.27 10/07 TO 10/08 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 9.0 2000 TOTALS 0.0 0.6 -0.6 T SINCE 7/1 0.0 0.6 -0.6 MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.1 -0.1 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 0 MM 24 HR TOTAL MM MM DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 456 522 -66 316 SINCE 7/1 589 752 -163 MM COOLING TOTAL 0 1 -1 2 SINCE 1/1 492 379 113 MM ................................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.2 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 33/320 DATE 10/12 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 54/320 DATE 10/12 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.52 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 8 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 17 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 6 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 71 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 0 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 0 RAIN 2 LIGHT RAIN 14 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0 FOG 17 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 3 HAZE 3 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. * INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. ................................................................ ...OCTOBER 2024 CLIMATE NARRATIVE FOR NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE... OCTOBER 2024 WAS WARMER THAN NORMAL WITH MUCH BELOW AVERAGE PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION. TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM ABOUT 1.5 TO 3.5 DEGREES (F) ABOVE THE 1991-2020 NORMALS. PRECIPITATION WAS GENERALLY BETWEEN 25 AND 50 PERCENT OF NORMAL. IN CARIBOU, IT WAS THE 9TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. SIX OF THE 10 WARMEST OCTOBERS IN CARIBOU HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 2007, INCLUDING FIVE SINCE 2017. RECORDS IN CARIBOU DATE BACK TO 1939. ELSEWHERE, TEMPERATURES FOR OCTOBER 2024 FELL OUTSIDE THE TOP 10 WARMEST ON RECORD. THE WARMEST DAY OF OCTOBER CAME ON THE 31ST, WHEN ALL FOUR SITES SET RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR THE DAY. BANGOR SAW A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 78 DEGREES, WHILE CARIBOU SAW A HIGH OF 77 DEGREES. MILLINOCKET AND HOULTON REPORTED HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 75 AND 73 DEGREES, RESPECTIVELY. THE HIGH TEMPERATURES IN CARIBOU, BANGOR, AND MILLINOCKET WERE THE WARMEST TEMPERATURES FOR SO LATE IN THE YEAR AT THOSE SITES. THE FIRST FREEZE OF THE YEAR OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 9TH IN CARIBOU, WHICH WAS THE 6TH LATEST FIRST FREEZE DATE ON RECORD. OF THE TEN LATEST FIRST FREEZE DATES ON RECORD IN CARIBOU, FIVE HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 2010. THE FIRST FREEZE IN HOULTON OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 8TH, WHICH IS THE 2ND LATEST ON RECORD. THE RECORD LATEST FIRST FREEZE IN HOULTON WAS OCTOBER 11TH, 1957. MIILINOCKET HAD ITS FIRST FREEZE ON OCTOBER 9TH, ITS 13TH LATEST FIRST FREEZE ON RECORD. BANGOR SAW ITS FIRST FREEZE ON OCTOBER 17TH, ITS 12TH LATEST ON RECORD. RECORDS IN HOULTON, MILLINOCKET, AND BANGOR DATE BACK TO 1948, 1903, AND 1925 RESPECTIVELY. THE COLDEST MORNING OF THE MONTH OCCURRED ON THE 29TH, WHEN MANY LOCATIONS SAW LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE TEENS. BANGOR RECORDED A LOW TEMPERATURE OF 17 DEGREES ON THE 29TH. THIS WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IN BANGOR SINCE 1944. THE ALL- TIME LOWEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IN BANGOR WAS 11 DEGREES, SET ON OCTOBER 30TH, 1941. YET PERHAPS THE MOST NOTEWORTHY ASPECT OF OCTOBER 2024 WAS HOW DRY IT WAS ACROSS THE REGION. AT CARIBOU, IT WAS THE 9TH DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. IT WAS ALSO THE 9TH DRIEST OCTOBER IN BANGOR. MEANWHILE, MILLINOCKET AND HOULTON SAW THEIR 7TH AND 10TH DRIEST OCTOBERS ON RECORD, RESPECTIVELY. EVAPORATION, AS MEASURED IN CARIBOU, WAS 1.81 INCHES FOR OCTOBER 2024. AT THE START OF THE MONTH, THE US DROUGHT MONITOR HAD MODERATE DROUGHT (D1) CONDITIONS ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST. ABNORMALLY DRY (D0) CONDITIONS WERE PRESENT IN MOST OF THE REST OF THE AREA OUTSIDE OF THE SAINT JOHN VALLEY AND THE NORTH WOODS. AT THE END OF THE MONTH, D1 CONDITIONS COVERED MOST LOCATIONS SOUTH AND EAST OF KATAHDIN, AS WELL AS IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY ALONG THE NEW BRUNSWICK BORDER. DO CONDITIONS COVERED MOST OF THE REST OF THE AREA EXCEPT IN THE SAINT JOHN VALLEY AND TOWARDS THE QUEBEC BORDER. THE FIRST SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON OCCURRED ON THE 14TH AND 15TH IN THE NORTH WOODS, WHERE UP TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW FELL. ANOTHER MINOR SNOW EVENT OCCURRED IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY ON THE 27TH, WHERE A TRACE TO 1 INCH OF SNOW FELL. OFFICIALLY IN CARIBOU, 0.1 INCHES OF SNOW FELL ON THE 27TH. THE 1991-2020 AVERAGE SNOWFALL FOR OCTOBER IN CARIBOU IS 1.7 INCHES, AND MEASURABLE SNOW HAS FALLEN IN 53/85 (62 PERCENT) OF ALL OCTOBERS ON RECORD. NO SNOW FELL DURING THE MONTH SOUTH OF KATAHDIN. IN BANGOR, THE 1991-2020 AVERAGE OCTOBER SNOWFALL IS 0.6 INCHES, AND MEASURABLE SNOW HAS FALLEN IN 10/94 (11 PERCENT) OF ALL OCTOBERS, WITH 5 YEARS OF MISSING DATA. FALL FOLIAGE PEAKED DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH ACROSS THE NORTH, AND TOWARDS MID MONTH NEAR BANGOR AND DOWNEAST. A STRONG WIND EVENT OCCURRED ON THE 12TH, WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. SINCE THE TREES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS STILL HAD LEAVES ON THEM, NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES WERE TAKEN DOWN. OVER 100 THOUSAND CUSTOMERS WERE LEFT WITHOUT POWER, WITH THE LARGEST OUTAGES OCCURRING IN PISCATAQUIS, PENOBSCOT, AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. THE CLIMATE PREDICITION CENTER'S (CPC) OUTLOOK FOR NOVEMBER 2024 INDICATES THAT THE ODDS ARE TILTED TOWARDS ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE CPC SHOWS THE ODDS SLIGHTLY TILTED TOWARDS UNUSUALLY DRY CONDITIONS FOR DOWNEAST MAINE. ELSEWHERE, THERE ARE NO STRONG CLIMATE SIGNALS THAT POINT TOWARDS UNUSUALLY WET (SNOWY) OR UNUSUALLY DRY CONDITIONS IN NOVEMBER 2024. AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURES RANGE FROM THE MID 40S TO LOWER 50S (FROM NORTH TO SOUTH) AT THE START OF THE MONTH. BY THE END OF THE MONTH, AVERAGE HIGHS RANGE FROM THE UPPER 30S TO THE MID 40S. AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURES RANGE FROM NEAR 40 DEGREES AT THE START OF THE MONTH DOWNEAST, TO THE LOW TO MID 20S BY THE END OF THE MONTH. ACROSS THE FAR NORTH, AVERAGE LOWS DROP FROM THE LOWER 30S AT THE START OF THE MONTH TO THE UPPER TEENS BY THE END OF THE MONTH. LIQUID PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER AVERAGES BETWEEN 3.25 AND 4.00 INCHES ACROSS THE REGION. SNOWFALL IN CARIBOU FOR NOVEMBER AVERAGES 10.4 INCHES, WHILE IN BANGOR SNOWFALL AVERAGES 4.3 INCHES. ON AVERAGE, NOVEMBER IS THE CLOUDIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR ACROSS THE REGION. SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE ANYTIME DURING NOVEMBER, BUT THE FREQUENCY OF LARGER SNOW EVENTS INCREASES MOST RAPIDLY DURING THE 2ND HALF OF THE MONTH. NEARLY 2 HOURS OF DAYLIGHT IS LOST DURING NOVEMBER. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS THIS YEAR ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD. $$ NC/CB