MAINE PUBLIC • October 22, 2024
If you thought Monday and Tuesday of this week felt like beach days, you weren't wrong. Temperatures across the state soared well into the 70s and beyond, and several records were broken. Temperatures in the city of Portland reached 78 degrees, breaking the previous record of 75 set on the same day back in 1979, according to the National Weather Service. And if that seems like a warm October day in Maine, the town of Fryeburg was even hotter. The high temperature there was 80 degrees at the regional airport, surpassing the previous record of 75 degrees.