Friday's weather featured very hot and very humid weather. At WeatherMaine, the heat index was in the 90's (°F) from 10am until after 7pm. The threat of thunderstorms diminished as a pre-frontal trough came through, decoupling the surface lifting from the upper-level support. There were a few large thunderstorms in New Hampshire, but most of the activity was isolated in nature, and confined to our South or West.

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
225 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 2003

...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM AT PORTLAND TIED AT 1252 PM...

AT 1252 PM TEMPERATURE AT THE PORTLAND JETPORT REACHED 91 DEGREES.
THIS TIES THE RECORD MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THIS DAY THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1955.

WeatherMaine.com had a high temperature of:
91.2 °F at 12:20pm (Sensor 1, South Portland)