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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Sean Birkel, assistant professor at the University of �������� Climate Change Institute (CCI), on record high temperatures in the state during 2024. “We had a warmer than usual spring, a record hot June marked by a heatwave and very high overnight temperatures, and a record hot fall,” said Birkel, who is also ��������’s state climatologist. “Our last four years rank among our warmest.” The report also featured a data visualization from the CCI Climate Reanalyzer that showed average yearly temperatures trending upward between 1900 and 2020. The shared the Press Herald article.