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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY MAINE
355 PM EDT SAT MAY 17 2008
LOW PRESSURE MOVED FROM SOUTH OF NEW ENGLAND FRIDAY NIGHT TO SOUTH
OF NOVA SCOTIA SATURDAY AFTERNOON...PUTTING NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MUCH
OF MAINE ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF ITS PRECIPITATION SHIELD. MOST
AREAS ON THAT NORTHERN PERIPHERY SAW BARELY ENOUGH RAIN TO WET THE
GROUND...BUT DOWN NEAR NEW HAMPSHIRE'S BORDER WITH SOUTHERN NEW
ENGLAND...UP TO NEARLY ONE HALF INCH WAS REPORTED...AND THOSE
HEAVIER AMOUNTS EXTENDED TO NEAR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COASTLINE.
AS THE LOW MOVED THROUGH THE OPEN ATLANTIC IT GRADUALLY INTENSIFIED
AND RAINFALL SATURDAY AFTERNOON WAS PROVING TO BE A BIT MORE
SUBSTANTIAL ACROSS MAINE'S SOUTHEAST CORNER...JUST SEVERAL MILES
EAST OF AUGUSTA. THAT RAIN WAS PULLING SLOWLY EAST WITH THE LOW AND
WON'T BE EFFECTING ANYONE FARTHER WEST TODAY. TEMPERATURES IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE...WHERE CLOUDS PULLED OUT EARLY IN THE DAY...MANAGED TO
TOP 70 IN MANY INSTANCES...WHILE THE REST OF US WERE ONCE AGAIN HELD
TO THE 60S. EVEN A LITTLE COOLER READINGS WERE FOUND IN
SOUTHEASTERN MAINE WHERE TEMPERATURES REMAINED IN THE
50S...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST.
WE'LL COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BRIEFLY
LATE TODAY...ALLOWING MOST OF US TO SEE THE SUN FOR A WHILE...HOWEVER...A
BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
OVER EASTERN CANADA...WILL BECOME OUR WEATHER MAKER DURING THE
SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND. AS IT MEANDERS ABOUT IN ABOUT THE SAME
SPOT FOR SEVERAL DAYS...IT WILL CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE THE WEATHER
ACROSS NEW ENGLAND FOR MOST OF THE UPCOMING WEEK.
SOME PRECIPITATION WITH ANOTHER SURFACE LOW TO OUR WEST MAY MAKE IT
INTO OUR NECK OF THE WOODS TONIGHT...BUT THE RIDGE IN BETWEEN THE
DEPARTING AND THE APPROACHING LOWS...WILL ERODE MUCH OF THAT BEFORE
IT REACHES US. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MIGHT REACH AS FAR AS THE
CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY BUT EVEN THOSE MAY NOT MAKE IT THANKS TO
THE RIDGE.
ANOTHER RIDGE MOVES IN LATE TONIGHT...AND SHOULD END ANY
PRECIPITATION THAT DOES OCCUR...AND THEN WE WON'T SEE MORE UNTIL AT
LEAST LATE SUNDAY. A BETTER CHANCE AT MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN LOOKS
POSSIBLE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY.
THE LOW IN THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL KEEP US
UNSETTLED WITH FAIR AND RAINY PERIODS INTERSPERSED FOR MUCH OF NEXT
WEEK. BY THE END OF THE WEEK...WE MAY FINALLY START TO SEE SOME
IMPROVEMENT...AS HIGH PRESSURE REPLACES THE ESSENTIALLY STATIONARY
LOW...DUE TO BRING US COOL AND CLOUDY AND OCCASIONALLY RAINY
WEATHER NEXT WEEK.
BROWN
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