Aroostook County has received a half to one inch of rain over the last couple of days since Sunday, June 4, according to Tim Duda, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Caribou.
There will be an additional half to one inch of rain for the remainder of the week. The risk of flooding doesn’t appear to be a significant issue.
Aroostook is running a half to three-tenths of an inch more of rain than in previous years for this early in the month of June.
“In this time of year typically you’d be expecting a high temperature of around 70 degrees, so we are going to be running a good 15 degrees or so below normal temperature-wise for this year,” Duda said.
The cool northern to northeast wind, combined with the cloud cover and rainfall, is contributing to the colder than average temperatures. High temperatures are expected to be in the low to mid-50 degrees in northern Maine.
In a normal year, a high temperature would be around 70 degrees for early June, Duda said.
It is an upper-level low pressure system moving east across northern Maine.
Aroostook County is in an unsettled pattern of rainfall that will keep going through the remainder of the week. The bulk of the rainfall is expected to happen on Friday, Duda said.
A continued chance of showers will happen over the weekend, but higher temperatures are expected to be in the 60s by Saturday, and return to a normal 70 degrees Fahrenheit Sunday for the Caribou and Presque Isle area.
Into the early part of next week, it’s a moderated temperature trend with higher temperatures in the 70s with some scattered showers but will dry out as next week progresses into Monday and Tuesday.
