Maine, 2024Heat in Maine, July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024 · NWS CAR · 3 events in 3 counties and zones
produced Heat Index values in the mid 90s across portions of Downeast Maine for a second consecutive day.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s...with dewpoints in the lower 70s...produced Heat Index values in the mid 90s across portions of Downeast Maine for a second consecutive day.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 16, 6:48 PM EST, 18 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 6:48 PM EST, 18 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Heat, Southern Penobscot
- When
- July 17, 1:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Southern Penobscot forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 45.401, -68.649 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s...with dewpoints in the lower 70s...produced Heat Index values in the mid 90s during the afternoon. This was the second consecutive day of Heat Index values in the mid 90s.
Heat, Interior Hancock
- When
- July 17, 1:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Interior Hancock forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 44.563, -68.368 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s...with dewpoints in the lower 70s...produced Heat Index values in the mid 90s during the afternoon.
Heat, Central Washington
- When
- July 17, 1:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Central Washington forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 44.970, -67.609 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s...with dewpoints in the lower 70s...produced Heat Index values in the mid 90s during the afternoon.
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Heat in Nevada, July 17 to 19, 202411 deaths · 1 event
- Heat in Arizona, July 17 to 20, 20247 deaths · 2 events
- Wildfire in Washington, July 17 to 31, 2024$19 million · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Missouri, July 17, 2024$1.7 million · 26 events
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 17, 2024$93,000 · 56 kt wind · 24 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 17 to 20, 2024$100,000 · 55 kt wind · 8 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 17, 2024$107,000 · 52 kt wind · 5 events
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 17, 2024$39,000 · 60 kt wind · 16 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 17, 2024$16,000 · 1 in hail · 30 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, July 17, 2024$24,000 · 50 kt wind · 20 events
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 17, 2024$26,000 · 60 kt wind · 15 events
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 17, 2024$33,000 · 70 kt wind · 6 events
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1201994, 1201995, 1201996.