GRAY, Maine (AP) — The soaring temperature has broken a record in Portland, Maine, and the mercury is still climbing.
Eric Schwibs of the National Weather Service says the temperature hit 95 degrees as of noon Friday in Portland, breaking the old record of the date of 94 degrees set in 1994. He says the temperature will continue to climb, but will fall shy of the city’s all-time high of 103 degrees.
People are doing what they can to keep cool.
In Limington, James Maxim reclined in the Saco River while the cool water washed over him. The Massachusetts resident says he wasn’t expected “ungodly heat and humity” while vacationing in Maine.
The temperature is expected to hit the 90s again on Saturday, meeting the National Weather Service’s definition of an official heat wave.
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- Paul J. Mattson took a picture of his indoor/outdoor thermometer on Friday afternoon in Harrison.
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