CARIBOU, Maine — For the past two weeks, there is one word that Karen McCarthy of Houlton swears she has heard more out of her three children’s mouths than any other word: rain.
“That is all they have been complaining about, each day, day after day,” she said. “We can’t go out and play because it is raining, or it never stops raining here. I have been telling them that they are just exaggerating, but now I realize I was wrong.’”
That is because statistics from the National Weather Service in Caribou show that precipitation was above average in the state last month except across portions of Down East Maine, where it was slightly below average. Tony Mignone, meteorologist at the NWS, said Friday this was because of a very active jet stream in the eastern part of the nation.
“We had several days of very wet weather in April,” he noted.
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