PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 28, 2025
Last year was Maine’s hottest on record, with midsummer and late fall heatwaves and record temperatures in the north driving the average annual statewide temperature 5 degrees above the historical average, records show. It was Earth’s hottest year on record, too, and the first time in recorded history that the annual average exceeded the climate threshold established in the 2015 world climate treaty. Across Maine, 2024 was also a year of weather extremes. It began with floods and ended with a drought.