SUN JOURNAL • August 18, 2022
A new climate report issued this week predicts that within three decades, counties in Maine will annually experience twice as many days with summertime highs above 90 degrees. The First Street Foundation’s sixth National Risk Assessment: Hazardous Heat study said that because of climate change Androscoggin County will have almost two dozen 90-degree days in an average year by 2053 — the most of any county in the state. Kennebec and York counties follow with 21 90-degree days by 2053.