PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 4, 2020
This summer was the hottest on record in Portland, although recent history suggests 2020 may not hold that title for long. As if the pandemic summer of 2020 didn’t offer enough ways to be remembered (or purposely forgotten), meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Gray announced this week that the period from June to August was also the warmest since record-keeping began in 1940. The average temperature for the three-month period in Portland was 70.5 degrees – more than 1.5 degrees warmer than the previous record (set just two years ago) and 3.6 degrees hotter than the “normal” summer temperature in the city.