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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Wow Susan Jane --Record 50 below zero in Maine --
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:21:46 -0800 (PST)

I sure hope you are warm...............................................

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Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Kennebec Journal
Morning Sentinel
50-below sets Maine record


By Giselle Goodman

February 10, 2009 11:45 AM

Recent Updates
TUESDAY'S GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD 12:00 AMAUGUSTA -- The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine
State Climate Office announced today that a minus-50 reading in northwestern
Maine held up to scientific scrutiny.

That beats Maine's old record of 48 below zero set in 1925 in Van Buren, and
ties the record for coldest temperature recorded in New England. That reading
was made in 1933 in Bloomfield, Vt.

The record on New Hampshire's Mount Washington is minus-47.

Maine's minus-50 reading was made on Jan. 16 at a remote site along the Big
Black River near the Quebec border as the region was in the grip of a blast
of arctic air.

10:09

AUGUSTA -- Just how cold is the record cold in Maine?

NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the U.S.
Geological Survey and the Maine State Climate Office will tell us today at a
meeting in Augusta.

The question: Does a reading of minus-50 in northwestern Maine, made on Jan.
16 at a site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border, break the
all-time record.

We'll have to wait until 11 a.m., to find out what the weather watchers above
determined after reviewing the equipment used to make the reading.

The National Weather Service says the current cold record for Maine is 48
below, recorded in Van Buren on Jan. 19, 1925.

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/039516.html








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