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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
540 PM EST MON JAN 14 2013

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT PORTLAND MAINE TODAY...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 59 DEGREES WAS SET AT THE PORTLAND
JETPORT TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD FOR THIS DATE OF 53 SET IN
1950 AND AGAIN IN 2005. THE 59 DEGREE READING FELL SHORT OF THE ALL
TIME HIGH FOR JANUARY WHICH WAS 67 DEGREES SET ON JANUARY 6, 2007.

YESTERDAY PORTLAND MISSED REACHING THE RECORD HIGH BY JUST THREE
DEGREES. THE HIGH ON SUNDAY WAS 45 DEGREES...SHORT OF THE RECORD 48
SET IN 1972 AND 1995.

HOWEVER...PORTLAND DID SET TWO OTHER TEMPERATURE RECORDS FOR THE
13TH OF JANUARY. THE LOW OF 36 SET A RECORD FOR THE WARMEST LOW
TEMPERATURE ON THE 13TH. THE OLD RECORD WAS 34 DEGREES IN 1956. THE
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ON SUNDAY WAS 41 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE OLD
RECORD FOR THE WARMEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY 13TH WHICH
WAS 37 DEGREES SET IN 1956 AND 2002.

TEMPERATURE RECORDS AT THE PORTLAND JETPORT BEGAN IN NOVEMBER OF
1940.

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SJC