Maine can Pretty Much Say Goodbye to 50 Degree Days Until Spring

How do you really feel about winter?

We all have our opinions, I suppose. I know folks who absolutely adore it. Even I find it quite tolerable during the holiday season. I love a little snow at Thanksgiving, and who doesn't love some snow on the ground at Christmas? After that though, I've pretty much had it with the white stuff.

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We've had a really good run this year so far, as far as unseasonably warm weather goes. Criminy's sake, kids were out trick or treating in short sleeves this year! But all that is quickly fading out, to make room for the next round of bull crap Mother Nature has in store for us.

Short, cold days ahead...

It's bad enough that the end of Daylight Saving Time spelled the end of 5:00pm sunsets. But now, all this beautiful weather we've gotten so accustomed to, is going away. This week, the forecast has been quite favorable. Even Wednesday may see the mercury go well over the 50 degree mark.

But after that, according to the long-range Accuweather forecast, temps will begin to normalize. Don't get me wrong, it's not looking exactly like a frozen wasteland or anything. In fact, I believe that the La Nina effect could bring us a fairly mild winter. But as far as setting record temps or anything, probably not.

When does it start to get reeeeally cold?

Granted, it's kind of hard to predict things too far out, but it looks like by the time we get to the middle of January, we'll start to see some good dips. Daytime temps might be okay-ish, but it looks like by then, the temps at night will get pretty real, pretty fast. By mid-month, we'll see nights going well below zero.

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Hey, it could be worse. You know it's going to get colder even quicker up in the County. Those poor folks have already had plowable snow, while we're sitting down here complaining about our lack of 50 degree days in November. But, the weather will "Maine" itself up pretty quick... Have no fear.