Ten days ago a nor’easter put 1.88 inches of rain on Portland in a single day, breaking a daily record of 1.51 inches set in 1993, according to WGME. If your basement, garage or first floor took water that weekend…
Maine went into this weekend with every county in at least moderate drought. WGME's September 17 drought update put the Midcoast from Casco Bay to Penobscot Bay back in extreme drought, with Portland at 8.65 inches of rain for June…
A Lewiston Sun Journal fact brief on September 3 confirmed something Mainers already feel every October. In 2024, 14.4 percent of Maine housing units, about one in seven, were classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as vacant for seasonal, recreational…
Maine has been running two kinds of weather at once this August, and the combination is putting water into buildings that stayed dry all summer. Most of the month has been hot, humid, and dry enough that the state slid…
We have taken a run of calls this month that all start the same way. Somebody goes down the basement stairs for a tote of school clothes, gets hit with that heavy, wet-cardboard smell, and finds gray fuzz on the…
