000 CXUS51 KCAR 011847 CLMCAR CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU, ME 245 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2008 ................................... ...THE CARIBOU CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 2008... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1971 TO 2000 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1939 TO 2008 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR'S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 96 06/29/1944 LOW 30 06/07/1958 HIGHEST 82 06/08 MM MM 86 06/11 LOWEST 40 06/05 MM MM 37 06/07 AVG. MAXIMUM 69.5 71.8 -2.3 72.9 AVG. MINIMUM 51.8 49.9 1.9 49.0 MEAN 60.6 60.8 -0.2 60.9 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.4 -0.4 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 7.11 1940 MINIMUM 0.88 1983 TOTALS 5.87 3.31 2.56 2.44 DAILY AVG. 0.20 0.11 0.09 0.08 DAYS >= .01 19 13.4 5.6 12 DAYS >= .10 12 7.8 4.2 7 DAYS >= .50 2 2.3 -0.3 0 DAYS >= 1.00 1 0.4 0.6 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.73 06/28 TO 06/29 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 0.0 MM TOTALS 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SINCE 7/1 197.8 116.0 81.8 106.6 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 0 0 DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 MM 0 MM 24 HR TOTAL 0.0 06/30 TO 06/30 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 139 159 -20 133 SINCE 7/1 9536 9560 -24 9188 COOLING TOTAL 17 39 -22 22 SINCE 1/1 17 46 -29 35 ................................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 5.9 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 36/350 DATE 06/08 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 48/350 DATE 06/08 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 8 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 12 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 10 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 78 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 10 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 9 RAIN 11 LIGHT RAIN 20 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0 FOG 23 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 5 HAZE 0 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE CLIMATE NARRATIVE FOR JUNE 2008... THE MONTH OF JUNE WILL GO IN THE RECORD BOOKS AS BEING DOMINATED BY A HIGH AMPLITUDE-BLOCKING PATTERN OVER EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PATTERN ACROSS QUEBEC PROVINCE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOE A RATHER COOL AND WET START TO THE SUMMER SEASON FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE. A COUPLE OF STRONG COLD FRONTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PATTERN PROVIDED SEVERAL EPISODES OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE REGION EARLY IN THE MONTH. MOST NOTABLE WAS THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO SEPARATE MICROBURST EVENTS... ONE AFFECTING JUST SOUTH OF PRESQUE ISLE AND THE SECOND OCCURRING IN FORT KENT. BOTH EVENTS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR A NARROW SWATH OF DAMAGE CONSISTING OF UPROOTED TREES AND DAMAGED HOMES. MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE MONTH FEATURED THE DEEP TROUGH ROTATING COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM SOUTHERN QUEBEC PROVINCE ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND AND THEN LIFTING BACK TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST ACROSS QUEBEC PROVINCE. SIGNIFICANT PIECES OF ENERGY ROTATING THROUGH THIS TROUGH WERE TIED TO A SERIES OF SURFACE TROUGHS AND FRONTS ACTING TO FOCUS WIDESPREAD CONVECTION THROUGHOUT MUCH OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACCOMPANIED THE CONVECTION ACROSS THE REGION WITH MONTHLY RAINFALL TOTALS RANGING FROM 1 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS INTERIOR AND COASTAL DOWNEAST MAINE TO 5 TO 15 INCHES ACROSS THE CENTRAL...NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTION OF THE REGION. PRECIPITATION DEPARTURES RANGED FROM A MINUS 0.03 AT BANGOR TO NEARLY 2 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL... 1.96 AND 1.97 AT HOULTON AND MILLINOCKET RESPECTIVELY. THE PRECIPITATION DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH AT CARIBOU WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE TWO AND A HALF INCHES /2.56 INCHES/. IN TERMS OF PERCENT OF NORMAL RAINFALL...THE ABOVE MENTIONED AMOUNTS RANGED FROM 25 TO 100 PERCENT ABOVE NORMAL FOR INTERIOR AND COASTAL DOWNEAST TO AS MUCH AS 125 TO NEARLY 300 PERCENT ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL FOR THE CENTRAL...NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTION OF THE REGION. NOT TO BE OUT SHADOWED BY THE AMOUNT OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION THAT OCCURRED DURING THE MONTH...TEMPERATURES SHOWED MINIMAL DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS WHICH ACTUALLY ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO HOVERED CLOSE TO NORMAL FOR THE CLIMATOLOGICAL SITES. TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES FOR THE MONTH RANGED FROM 0.3 DEGREES AND 0.5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL FOR BANGOR AND MILLINOCKET RESPECTIVELY...TO MINUS 0.2 DEGREES AT CARIBOU AND MINUS 0.8 DEGREES AT HOULTON. $$ FITZSIMMONS