Maine weather

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection's Air Quality Bureau has even gone so far as to issue an air quality alert through Tuesday here in the Pine Tree State.

You can almost bet on this happening each and every year here in Maine. Some kind of a winter storm that will batter New England over the course of Groundhog Day.

Here comes your Maine Weather Roundup. Some new records set this week and a look back at some Maine weather history on this date. Let's start with yet ANOTHER record set in Maine this summer. We've already set new records for the warmest month on record (July) and what will be the warmest Maine summer on record. All of these charts and facts come from the smartypants at the National Weather Service in beautiful Gray, Maine.

We hope you're ready for some hot weather in the next couple of days. We're looking at '80s and 90 degree high temps. Summer in Maine! Our friends at the National Weather Service over there in Gray found this interesting tidbit. We know it's been pretty dry the past couple of weeks but we had no idea just HOW dry!

Well, it felt colder than usual. And damper. And darker. Yeah, all in all, it was a pretty bad month weatherwise and otherwise. But did it ever get over 60 in Portland all month? It did in January and again in March. But according to our friends at the National Weather Service in Gray.....

Luckily for us in Southern Maine, it's only predicted to possibly fall up north in the County.

Our friends at the NWS in Gray put up this wicked cool time-lapse video of an ice jam. An ice jam is when blocks of ice in a river block the flow of water and causes flooding.

In case there was any doubt, you know there's definitely a big storm headed our when our favorite Canadian weather forecaster includes Maine in his weekly reports. "Do your grocery shopping! Don't wait until the last minute! Do it right now!!"

With many traveling this weekend ahead of Christmas, this is probably the worst possible time for outages like this.

Because snow might happen again this week... here are some of Maine's earliest-storm and most-snow records from the National Weather Service in Caribou.

In upstate New York, they have "lake effect" snow. Here in Maine, we have "Canadian mountain effect snow!" Here's how it works.

Even though according to the calendar Spring has been here over a month, here in Maine we know late April is when Spring really shows up for the party. Here's what to expect for 'blazin' temps on Two for Tuesday!

Fans of YouTube sensation Frankie MacDonald can now have a reminder to "Be Prepared!" when severe weather is on the way, right at their desks.

Check out this video of it standing majestically with the angry surf smashing all around and the sun starting to come in the background. Just beautiful. Thanks York PD!

The 40 foot pine tree that's been on the property longer than our family, lay like a body stretched out into the street.

This off-center selfie is the direct result of an unruly, oversize winter coat hood. I had to share it with you because misery loves company. It was freezing cold and windy, and I have to wait outside with the other kindergarten parents when I pick our girls up from school...