? With Hurricane Florence churning toward the Carolinas, President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed his administration’s response to last year’s storm in Puerto Rico, where researchers have estimated there were nearly 3,000 excess deaths. In remarks in the Oval Office, Trump said his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria was “an incredible, unsung success” and also […]
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Carolinas brace for ‘extremely dangerous’ Florence
Florence continued its path toward the East Coast overnight Monday, maintaining its monstrous Category 4 storm status and 140-mph winds. The National Hurricane Center is calling the storm “extremely dangerous,” and predicts it could still strengthen to near Category 5 intensity on Tuesday. The center issued hurricane and storm surge watches for the East Coast […]
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Hurricane Florence expected to be almost a Category 5 when it hits U.S.
On Sunday evening, the National Hurricane Center was forecasting Florence to become a strong Category 4 hurricane just before making landfall Thursday somewhere on the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic coast. Know what’s happening, when it’s happening With each passing flight into the eye of the storm and every new forecast from the global weather models, it […]
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Maine still cleaning up after Thursday’s storms
Brunswick schools are closed Friday while crews continue to work to restore power to thousands of customers in the area. A powerful mid-day storm on Thursday knocked out electricity to as many as 29,700 homes and businesses at it peak. Cumberland and Lincoln counties appeared to have suffered the biggest hit. Just over 9,000 customers remained without […]
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Storms tear through Maine, knock out power to 21,300 residents
A powerful thunderstorm is rolling southeast through southern Maine, and has already knocked out power to more than 21,300 residents. Most of the outages reported by Central Maine Power — 12,043 customers— were in Cumberland County, with nearly 1,600 others reported in Androscoggin County. About 4,000 Lincoln County residents were in the dark, along with […]
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Weakened Tropical Storm Gordon kills child in Florida mobile home
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall. The storm later weakened into a depression on Wednesday but remained dangerous, dumping rain, spawning tornadoes and kicking up heavy surf […]
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Lyme cases decline this summer, perhaps due to hot, dry weather
The number of Lyme disease cases has declined so far this summer compared to last year, and experts say the hot and dry weather may be responsible, by causing the ticks that carry the disease to go into a dormant, near hibernation-like state. Charles Lubelczyk, field biologist at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in […]
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A pleasant start to the Labor Day weekend
Visitors to Old Orchard Beach got an early start to the Labor Day weekend, taking advantage of the return of pleasant weather following several days of hot and humid conditions.
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Analysis: How serious should we treat ‘flake news’ from the Farmers’ Almanac?
The 2019 Farmers’ Almanac bills its 2018-19 winter outlook, which calls for “teeth-chattering cold” across much of the nation, as “flake news.” Given the publication’s checkered credibility, we’re not sure if headline is an attempt at self-deprecating humor or simply a fun a play on words. It could be both. In any event, there’s no […]
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Oppressive heat and humidity trigger health warnings
LEWISTON — Though the temperatures in central Maine are not breaking records this week, they are still dangerously high. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory and an air quality alert for most of Maine for Monday into Tuesday afternoon. “With low temperatures in the 90s and high humidity, the heat index value is […]