Forecasters are calling for more damaging winds and another round of power outages Thursday, just two days after high winds knocked out power to more than 95,000 Central Maine Power Co. customers and more than 10,000 Emera Maine customers. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the entire state that will take […]
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Strong winds knock out power to more than 60,000 Mainers
High winds toppled tree branches across Maine overnight, landing on power lines and knocking out power to tens of thousands of Mainers. This tree on Conesca Rd. in Raymond has apparently fallen onto power lines and caught fire @WGME pic.twitter.com/tARj8bycMM — Chandler Knowles (@CameraChandler) October 16, 2018 More than 52,000 were without power at 8 […]
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Five more deaths reported in Virginia after Michael rips through
Hurricane Michael, which ripped through the Southeast, leaving a trail of death and destruction from Florida to Virginia, finally moved off the coast, over the Atlantic Ocean overnight. Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane – the strongest on record to hit the area – wreaking havoc and […]
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Hurricane Michael: Watch drone video showing devastation in Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s Panhandle is littered with evidence that Hurricane Michael is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the mainland United States. Roofs and awnings are peeled from buildings, pieces of homes are scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines, chunks of beaches are washed away. Michael thrashed Georgia as a hurricane […]
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Rain cools down Maine after heat wave
PORTLAND (AP) — Record-setting warm temperatures throughout northern New England are cooling off. Temperatures are beginning to cool down amid rainfall Thursday. The National Weather Service warns of coastal flooding amid heavy rainfall in Maine and New Hampshire. The National Weather Service says Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday saw a record high of 82 degrees. The […]
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Hurricane Michael on a collision course with Florida Gulf Coast
Florida’s northern Gulf Coast faces its most serious hurricane threat in more than a decade as Michael edges ever closer. The intensifying storm is likely to make landfall Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, and conditions will begin to deteriorate Tuesday night. The hurricane has strengthened to Category 2, with the storm’s winds near 100 […]
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Hurricane Michael to hit Florida on Wednesday as a Category 3
Hurricane Michael is strengthening as it enters the Gulf of Mexico, and is aimed at Florida. The storm is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane by the time it reaches Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday. It will probably be the area’s strongest hurricane in at least 13 years. Both Florida’s Panhandle, from Pensacola to […]
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Severe thunderstorms could follow Wednesday’s warmth and humidity
STATEWIDE (WGME) — Wednesday is going to feel like summer again with warmer and more humid conditions making an appearance. The main event will be the approach and passage of a strong cold front Wednesday evening through Wednesday night. The main event this week still looks like the approach and passage of a cold front […]
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Temperatures plummet in Maine after weeks of balmy weather
The calendar says fall in Maine, and now so does the weather. The National Weather Service said the temperature plummeted to 26 degrees Monday morning in Caribou, breaking the old record of 27 degrees. Across the region, temperatures dipped below freezing. And at least one location dipped into the upper teens. James Brown from the […]
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PUC rules that CMP and Emera prepared 'reasonably' for Oct. 29 storm
The Maine Public Utilities Commission has concluded that Central Maine Power and Emera Maine responded “reasonably” to an intense rain and wind storm last October that led to record blackouts in much of the state, based on the best available weather forecasts at the time. The decision, which came in an unanimous vote Tuesday by […]