Winter in Maine?

   Here on the Pemaquid Peninsula we have started the New Year with a heat wave of epic proportions! Temperatures barely dip below freezing at night and we're getting used to seeing 40's and even 50's on the thermometer.

   At this time of year we normally fill our bird feeder at least once a day but this year even the grey squirrels aren't feeding and based on past experience those guys will eat anything including all of the products "guaranteed" to keep them away so I'm guessing that it's not because of the quality of our offerings but rather that it is just so darn easy to still find food in the woods.

   Our "snowbird" neighbors are calling in from places like Naples, Orlando, Savannah and Palm Springs and they usually delight in telling us how warm they are and how great the weather is there but we're not taking that this year!  No sir, Mr. Man, we've got people walking around downtown in shirtsleeves and some folks are still teeing it up on the local links.

   Now the weather persons have various explanations for this but quite frankly I think they are only slightly more reliable at predicting the weather than the economists are at predicting the real estate market.  Both are great at explaining what happened after the fact but neither can predict accurately more than 3 days ahead.

   So, it falls to us, the weather experts here at Newcastle Square Realty to explain this and we are up to the task. Clearly this is all the fault of one Craig Wilson, Executive Director of the Central Lincoln County YMCA. 

   Craig is one of those energetic types, can't sit still, always coming up with ideas and trying new things. This year Craig decided that the Y would have an outdoor skating rink.  So with visions of families skating around the rink on moonlit nights while others stood by a crackling bonfire with mugs of hot cocoa in their mitten-ed hands, Craig and his crew built a skating rink on the soccer field.  And there it sits.

   The day they finished it warmed up and except for one brief little snow storm that stayed on the ground less than a day we have had record warm temperatures.  Not a pond or a lake around is frozen and Toms snowmobiles are sitting in mud in his backyard. This could be the winter that never was.

   So if you've been thinking that this is the year you buy a little piece of heaven and finally move to Maine this would be a good time to come visit.  There's no need to pack a parka but at the same time there's no black flies!  And if there's any more strange natural phenomena we'll do our best to explain them right here.

Jim Cosgrove

Comments

[Eileen Cusack]

Hi Jim - looks like fun! It's 9.9 degrees here today though!