How Friday’s forecast compares with the record highs and lows of Christmas past
Who remembers how cold Christmas was in Bangor in 1980?
Monthly Archives: December 2015
What a Bowdoin researcher has learned about the tiny mites crawling on your face
It turns out that no one really knows much about these mites.
It’s always sunny in York County… relatively speaking. Interactive map shows sunlight across Maine
As fall turns to winter, Mainers are reminded just how precious sunlight is. Whereas in July, we could linger in the sun’s rays until after 8 p.m., in December it’s dark out before we leave work each day. In a color-coded, interactive map currently being discussed on the chat board site Reddit, the average daily […]
How archaeologists followed the clues of a mystery shipwreck from New Jersey to Maine
Piecing together the clues to determine a ship’s identity nearly a century after it wrecked can be tricky business.
As Maine went? Map shows how the state lost its place as a presidential predictor
This map is making the rounds on the discussion board site Reddit — the credits can be found in the bottom right corner — and shows how frequently each state voted for the eventual winners in the presidential elections over the last century. As you can see, despite the old political adage “As Maine goes, […]
Watch the shapes of Maine and the rest of the states evolve over 400 years
What we think of today as Maine lacked its top half until the 1760s, and was of course a part of Massachusetts until 1820.
Can’t get there from here: Century-old map shows how much more remote Maine used to be
It took about a week to get to Maine from London, for instance.
