Weather of The Kennebunks

02/09/2025

⚠️FEBRUARY 8th 2025 ... The local page has been tweaked again. The Maine Turnpike is changing URLs for webcams. I've added Biddeford and Wells.

I've also added links to CoCoRaHS observers in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. WANTED: CoCoRaHS observers in West K, Downtown, Lower Village, and Arundel, north and south of the Turnpike. If you are interested, let me know.

Special thanks to Crowe’s Restoration for sponsoring the page!

- Mike

Lexington Meadows - located just NW of downtown Kennebunk

08/06/2024

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08/03/2024

Early rainfall totals for Saturday morning, with more showers on the way. I discussed on Pine Tree Weather the chances for heavy rain this week. Did anyone see damage from lightning strikes or flooding issues? - Mike

08/01/2024

Kennebunk July 2024 Climatology

Average High: 85°
Average Low: 64°
Average Mean: 73° (+3° above normal)

Average mean temperature equals July 2019 & 2022

Daily Maximum High: 95° (7/16)
Daily Minimum High: 68° (7/29)

Daily Maximum Low: 71° (7/10, 7/17)
Daily Minimum Low: 55° (7/3)

July Precipitation: 2.49" (-0.94" below normal)
Year to date: 33.73" (+6.95" above normal)
Days of rainfall ≥ 0.10" = 5

For comparison purposes:

July 2023 Precipitation: 10.12" (+6.69" above normal)
Days of rainfall ≥ 0.10" = 11
Mean Temperature: 71°

Year to date:

Days ≥ 80° = 46 (recent record season total 67 in 2022)
Days ≥ 90° = 9 (recent record season total 15 in 2020)

2024 Precipitation total for June/July: 4.81" (-2.77" below normal)
2023 Precipitation total for June/July: 16.35" (+8.77" above normal)

This data is from my NOAA/CWOP weather station northwest of downtown Kennebunk. Local results may vary.

- Mike

07/28/2024

7/28/24 - KENNEBUNK PAGE UPDATE...

ADDED: USGS flood monitoring station links for the Kennebunk & Mousam Rivers and Branch Brook. Links to NWS CWOP weather station sites at Gooch's Beach & North Street, Kennebunkport.

If you have a Davis or Ambient Weather station, having you on the CWOP network would be extremely helpful. The more data sampling available, the better.

LOOKING FOR: Public webcams! Message me links!

I am trying to work on something better than the NWS short-term forecast grid, but until I do, it works. - Mike

Lexington Meadows - located just NW of downtown Kennebunk

07/18/2024

July 18th FORECAST OUTLOOK ... This may look familiar for those who get the weekly events Go Kennebunks: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Arundel Chamber email newsletter on Thursdays. I've been doing these faithfully for several years as Pine Tree Weather is a chamber member.

We'll get a break from the humidity over the weekend before it ticks up a bit next week. It does not appear to be as swampy as it has been.

From Tuesday onward, we dip back into an unsettled pattern as the anomalous ridge offshore begins to amp up again as the trough that dries us out over the weekend departs. There will be a bit of tug-of-war going on between the two through the end of the week, which brings shower chances. Expect daily sea breezes to cool the shorelines.

- Mike

07/17/2024

TUESDAY EVENING STORM, from a horizontal view, was a fairly good one. Thankfully, the storm was past maturity and weakening, diminishing the threat of wind damage. There was a report of wind damage in Scarborough with this line. With this line, 195 reports of wind damage have been noted so far from New York to Maine, with investigations on potential tornadoes to occur today.

Another round of showers and storms is possible this afternoon. More on that at Pine Tree Weather. - Mike

07/16/2024

TUESDAY July 16th SEVERE THUNDERSTORM UPDATE:

Mesoscale Discussion 1660
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0614 PM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

Areas affected...Southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts

Concerning...Severe Thunderstorm Watch 549...

Valid 162314Z - 170115Z

The severe weather threat for Severe Thunderstorm Watch 549
continues.

SUMMARY...The severe wind threat across WW 549 will mostly remain
focused across southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts for
the next 2 hours before a line of storms moves off shore. Wind gusts
upwards of 55 to 65 mph appear possible based on environmental
conditions and recent observations.

DISCUSSION...A well-organized MCS continues to push east across the
New England region with a recent wind report of 66 mph noted in
Berkshire county, MA within the last hour. Temperatures are falling
into the low to mid 70s in the wake of the line, indicating that a
deep cold pool remains in place and should help maintain MCS
intensity for the near-term with wind gusts up to 55-65 mph
possible. This assertion is supported by recent velocity imagery
from KENX, which shows at least two focused corridors of stronger
winds within the line. Immediately downstream of the MCS, a plume of
relatively higher theta-e is noted in recent surface
observations/analyses as low 70s dewpoints continue to advect
northward. This local corridor of better buoyancy should also help
maintain MCS intensity as it translates eastward towards the New
England coast. Latest timing estimates suggest the gust front should
reach the coast roughly around 01 UTC, though the severe wind threat
may persist after 01 UTC for far southern Maine.

..Moore.. 07/16/2024

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...

ATTN...WFO...GYX...BOX...ALY...

LAT...LON 42397311 42587285 42847261 43117239 43297219 43407212
43667015 43477033 43247058 42987076 42797080 42647073
42577074 42487086 42397311

07/16/2024

⚠️ TUESDAY July 16th…

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 549
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
555 PM EDT Tue Jul 16 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northern Connecticut
Central and Eastern Massachusetts
Far Southern Maine
Central and Southern New Hampshire
Northern Rhode Island
Coastal Waters

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning from 555
PM until 100 AM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A line of severe thunderstorms will continue moving
rapidly east across the watch area this evening, posing a risk for
damaging thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph, and perhaps isolated
hail.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles north northwest
of Laconia NH to 25 miles southeast of Worcester MA. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 547...WW 548...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27040.

...Bunting

07/16/2024

TUESDAY 7/16 - As we've seen over the interior, triple digits aren't a huge surprise. Heat index of 89° at Gooch's? That is pretty toasty for the shorelines. I talk about a thunderstorm threat later this evening at Pine Tree Weather. You may want to peek over there if you have not seen it yet. - Mike

07/15/2024

🔥MONDAY 7/15 2:15 PM - Not like this is out of the ordinary on a hot July day, but a 17° difference in temperature between downtown Kennebunk and Gooch's Beach. The heat indices have reached 100° at Dutch Elm and my station uptown. The sea breeze helps to bring relief the Kennebunk River area near Dock Square, but not much further than that. A warm night ahead with lows likely to stay above 70° away from the immediate coast. Stay cool! - Mike

07/14/2024

RAIN TOTALS FROM SATURDAY... This puts us up to near normal for this time of the month. We'll see how the week unfolds, but I think shower/storm chances will be hit or miss around the area. - Mike