Weather News

• Portsmouth fireworks canceled due to inclement weather - 7/3/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — The city’s fireworks display has been canceled for Thursday night due to heavy rain and thunderstorms.

• Severe weather may force change of plans for fireworks - 7/2/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — Thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday may dampen spirits and the city’s plans for a fireworks display.

• More thunderstorms in northern NE than usual - 6/30/2008

  CONCORD — Thunderstorms and clouds seemed to dominate the weather in northern New England in June, but the National Weather Service says it wasn't really that bad.

• Soaking of the Seacoast to cease shortly - 6/23/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — This week’s wet, wacky weather will disappear by Wednesday.

• Wild weather continues in NH - 6/23/2008

  CONCORD — Wild weather continued in New Hampshire on Monday for the second day, with dangerous thunderstorms lashing the southern part of the state.

• Giant moon illusion expected in tonight's sky - 6/18/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — If the moon looks especially huge tonight, fear not: It’s all in your mind.

• Thunderstorms, rain expected into weekend - 6/17/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — The skies promise to be filled with the sound of thunder this week.

• Storm breaks NH heat wave, drops trees, knocks out power - 6/11/2008

  CONCORD — Severe thunderstorms broke New Hampshire's heat wave, but also dropped hail and knocked out trees and power to thousands.

• Heat wave keeps hospital, stores busy - 6/11/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — The streak of roasting heat was expected to end today with temperatures dropping under 90 degrees for the first time in four days. In the city, the heat took a toll on everything from pets and asthmatics to stores' stocks of air...

  
• The heat is on - 6/10/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — The hot, muggy weather that has gripped the Seacoast over the last few days is finally on its way out. But don't take that air conditioner out of your window just yet.

  
• Air quality alert in effect for southern NH - 6/9/2008

  CONCORD — The weather will be downright dangerous in parts of New Hampshire until Tuesday evening.

• Poor air quality expected in NH for the weekend - 6/6/2008

  CONCORD — Air pollution concentrations are expected to reach unhealthy levels in Cheshire, Hillsborough, Sullivan, Merrimack and Rockingham counties, as well as elevations above 3,000 feet, on Saturday, June 7. On Sunday, June 8, and into the...

• High ozone levels expected in Maine during weekend - 6/6/2008

  AUGUSTA, Maine — State health officials have issued a warning that ozone concentrations in Maine could reach unhealthy levels over the weekend.

• Severe Thunderstorm Watch canceled - 5/27/2008

  The National Weather Service has canceled the Severe Thunderstorm, Watch 378 for the following areas In Maine and New Hampshire:
  2 Counties In Western Maine: Cumberland and York.

• Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Coastal Rockingham County - 5/27/2008

  CONCORD — Summertime temperatures in New Hampshire are prompting a summertime advisory from the National Weather Service.

• People evacuate Maine homes as St. John River floods - 4/30/2008

  FORT KENT, Maine — Residents evacuated their homes and businesses Wednesday as this Canadian border town at the northern tip of Maine was threatened with its worst flooding in nearly 30 years.

• Imperfect storm - 4/30/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — Two days and two nights of rain weren't enough to flood the Seacoast, thanks to what officials called a combination of flood preparation and recent dry weather.

  
• Flood watches posted for most of N.H. - 4/28/2008

  CONCORD — Rain moving into New Hampshire is dampening the fire danger but raising the threat of flooding.

• Seacoast residents, visistors welcome warm weather - 4/17/2008

  PORTSMOUTH ‑- Thursday’s bright blue skies and bright white sun were evidence that spring had come, and it has no plans to leave on Friday.

• PSNH outage report, 9 a.m. - 4/2/2008

  Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) reports about 5,800 (fifty-eight hundred) customers without power as of 9:30 a.m. as a result of high winds bringing trees and limbs down on power lines and equipment.