This month is projected to be the warmest September on record for Bangor.
The average temperature recorded this month is 65.5 degrees, which would break the previous record from 1961 by two tenths of a degree if the temperatures stay high, according to the National Weather Service.
Record-setting temperatures of nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit the past few days in Bangor and elsewhere in Maine have had residents throughout the state looking for ways to beat the heat, despite the relatively cool summer technically coming to an end last week. The highest temperature record in September in Maine is 99 degrees in Bangor on Sept. 7, 1945, NWS online statistics indicate.
Several places in northern Maine tied or broke date-specific records for warmth by a few degrees over the weekend and could do so again on Monday and Tuesday.
Temperatures in Bangor hit 85 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday and 89 on Sunday, breaking records that date back respectively to 1989 and 1930. Caribou and Houlton in Aroostook County tied records on Saturday and then, along with Millinocket, exceeded them on Sunday. Houlton and Millinocket each registered 87 degrees on Sunday, while Caribou registered 85.
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