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A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that Maine’s former expectation of a few days per year with a heat index above 90 degrees will now rise to between seven and 21 days a year ...
Maine agriculture is impacted by the changing climate that includes more hot days, droughts, increased flooding, and longer growing season. Some crops and farms could benefit from a longer growing season and more carbon dioxide in the air that increases plant growth. The rising temperatures are affecting the maple sugar season. [1]
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and most of interior western Massachusetts have a humid continental climate (Dfb under the Köppen climate classification). In this region, the winters are long, cold, and heavy snow is common, courtesy of both coastal and continental low pressure systems. Most locations in this region receive between 60 and 120 ...
Last year, the U.S. saw the greatest number of heat waves — abnormally hot weather lasting more than two days — since 1936. Chicago broke a 1957 temperature record Monday with a high of 97 ...
The hot air is less dense than surrounding cooler air. That, combined with the rise of the hot air, results in a low pressure area called a thermal low. [1] Over elevated surfaces, heating of the ground exceeds the heating of the surrounding air at the same altitude above sea level, which creates an associated heat low over the terrain, and ...
The hot, rising air would then escape through windows near the ceiling to create a natural airflow. Architects also incorporated front porches onto houses to give homeowners some relief from the heat.
Tropical and equatorial air masses are hot as they develop over lower latitudes. Tropical air masses have lower pressure because hot air rises and cold air sinks. Those that develop over land (continental) are drier and hotter than those that develop over oceans, and travel poleward on the southern periphery of the subtropical ridge. [5]
Maine lawmakers know how cold it gets in the Pine Tree State, and also know how high the heating bills will run this winter amid record high energy prices.To help out, they have announced a pair ...