MORNING SENTINEL • July 7, 2021
There were record high temperatures in the Northeast last month; also, new records in the Northwest and elsewhere. Portland, Oregon, shattered its previous peak and saw the mercury rise to 116 F on June 28; in Seattle it reached 108, topping the 103-degree record set the day before. On June 29, British Columbia sweltered through Canada’s highest recorded temperature ever — 121 degrees. Closer to home, in Maine, June’s mean temperature was 68.9, nearly two degrees higher than the previous record. On June 29, Augusta saw a record-warm low of 72 (meaning it was 70 before eight all night.) ~ Dana Wilde