Talk:Bath, Maine

More history
Surely there must be more history to a town like Bath! Pjmorse 14:48, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Climate
Just posting to say the climate info is a bit suspicious. The link in the ref is down, so it can't be confirmed, but -49F is a little bit cold for coastal Maine. I could see it being real if it was very old data, like how Boston managed to get to -30F in 1857 but hasnt even come close in recent years. But the rest of the data is clearly for recent years. In fact, a lot of the other record lows seem surprisingly mild (never been colder than 1°F in November?? Or -10 in March?). So the data might be bad in general. But it's hard to find data for this particular town, for some reason.

It was present from the beginning, as seen here. Also suspicious because when far northern Maine got to -50F a few years ago nobody seemed to mention that the new record had only beaten Bath by a mere 1 degree. Moreover, prior to this new -50F record, the previous record low for the state had usually been reported as -48F, and that was also in the far north, perhaps Allagash, not a southern coastal location. The only real argument in favor of it being possible is that Portland, Maine is generally the warmest in the state during winter and even Portland managed to get to -39°F once in recent history, which is only 2 degrees warmer than the record low for Minneapolis. But the -39 in Portland and the -49 in Bath are for different months, so they can't both be from just one single freakishly strong cold wave. — Soap — 15:03, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/l/USME0021:1:US seems to suggest that the data is still lurking on weather.com somewhere but is no longer publicly accessible .... they only give you 3 months at a time, and only the averages, not the record highs and lows. (Though you can get record *daily* highs and lows, that's useless.) — Soap — 15:09, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

More info: Bath did indeed get very cold once. Not –49°F, but –52°F way back in January 1857. In those days most thermometers used mercury, which freezes around -38F, and cant be the source of this measurement. But even then, there were thermometers that used ethanol, which can go down to -172F. Thus the –52°F in Bath is unofficial but quite possibly real. It just belongs to an era when even downtown Boston could get to -30 and New York City to around -25. The -39F in Portland Maine, however, is modern. — Soap — 18:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

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