Maine Weather: New 30-year data from NOAA shows changes in climate
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a new set of climate "normals" this week for Maine and the rest of the United States.Climate "Normals" explainedYou may have heard meteorologists refer to temperatures being above or below average, or rain and snow for the seasons being above or below the normal. NOAA calculates these defined sets of weather averages based on the last three decades of weather data. For the last 10 years, meteorologists have been using the normal and averages based off of the 1981-2010 data set. With another decade of weather data in the boo...
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