MAINE PUBLIC • February 1, 2023
Before the impending cold snap, the big weather story was winter's slow arrival in Maine. National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Baron crunched the numbers. He says, "January was actually the warmest January on record at a climate site in Portland.” Baron says in the wake of the frigid blast on Friday and Saturday, when temperatures in Portland are forecast to drop to 12 below zero, he expects the thermometer to return to normal, or even mild readings.