PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 10, 2026
Three northern Maine communities broke temperature records Tuesday even as winter was preparing to mount a comeback, the National Weather Service said. Bangor’s high of 70 degrees Tuesday marked the earliest in the year the area has seen such a high temperature since data there began being recorded in 1925. Millinocket, which recorded a high of 70 degrees, and Houlton, with a high of 64, also broke similar records for their communities. Angela LaFlash, a meteorologist at the weather service’s Caribou office, said, “It’s a big upper-level trough that has been piping warm air from down towards Mexico all the way up to the Northeast.” However, that’s also going to be responsible for some wintry precipitation in northern and interior Maine.