Weather

Just like every other season here in Maine, the weather has no idea what it really wants to do in the fall.

As of this morning CMP is reporting about 25,000 people without power while Versant is listing about 5,000.

It is essential to have a winter jacket in Maine, however, I do not, and here's why!

When we get rainstorms here in Maine, we commonly measure the amount of rain that we get in either tenths of an inch or sometimes even 1-2 inches.

It looks like our gorgeous pattern of sun, crisp air and the late summer breeze is about to come to an end.

It should come as no surprise that a storm that just impacted the gulf coast is headed up the Northeast corridor and will affect Maine in the next day or two. As typically happens, these hurricanes that hit down south lose power and intensity, thus also losing their hurricane status...

This story reminds me so much of when my own mother, an RN, headed to New Orleans in 2005 after being called on by the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA).

The remnants of tropical storm Fred will impact much of Maine over the next couple of days bringing rain.. lots and lots of rain.

Every year we almost forget in the middle of summer that we'll soon see another brutal New England winter rolling around.

According to WMTW, a waterspout was spotted touching down off the coast of Kennebunkport Thursday afternoon during a passing storm.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection's Air Quality Bureau has even gone so far as to issue an air quality alert through Tuesday here in the Pine Tree State.

As Hurricane Elsa moves through the region, the state of Maine will be in the direct path of all the heavy rains. According to WABI TV 5, the National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for parts of Maine.

According to News Center Maine, much of Maine will be in the cross hairs of some pretty severe weather later in the day.

We speculated a couple of weeks ago on the air that this might happen, and now it officially has. Before Renee's last day here on the Moose Morning Show last Wednesday, we had joked on and off about how she was leaving for warmer climates so naturally Maine would become warmer than Florida as soon as she arrived...

The high today should peak at about 93 degrees mid-day, but the heat index (or reverse wind chill as I call it) will make it feel closed to 100 degrees.

WGME meteorologist Dustin Bonk there will be a couple of things that will make a near-perfect recipe for some Maine thunder-boomers today.