You are not imagining it: This summer was much drier in Maine compared with last year.
And the past three weeks have been especially parched. Many locations throughout the state have received less than a quarter inch of rain so far this month, or roughly 2 inches less than their norms for September, according to the National Weather Service.
Mal Walker, lead meteorologist for the weather service in Caribou, said that an atmospheric high pressure system along the East Coast has recently been preventing tropical moisture in the Caribbean from making its way north over land. Normally, September brings such moisture to New England in the form of rain, he said…