UMaine climate change report cited in BDN editorial
The University of Maine report, “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” was cited in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Shrimp, Lyme, wildflowers: How climate change is already changing Maine.” While temperatures fluctuate with the weather, Maine’s average annual temperature is on an upward trend, according to the article. The state’s average temperature rose 3 degrees Fahrenheit between 1895 and 2014, and Maine has seen the amount of annual precipitation rise in that time — by 6 inches, or 13 percent, the UMaine report states. And more of that precipitation, according to the UMaine researchers, is falling during extreme weather events, when two or more inches of rainfall within 24 hours, the article states.