Welcome to far northern Maine, or Grand Isle, or more specifically what used to be Lille. Bumper stickers up here in the far north proclaim, "Aroostook County – The way life used to be!" We are located about halfway between Madawaska and Van Buren just south of U.S. Route One, at an elevation of about 717 feet depending how fickle my GPS receiver is on any given day.

My wife and I retired here from Phoenix Arizona in May 1998. Our home is a two story log home situated on about 60 acres and located about one mile from the highway and about the same distance from the New Brunswick/Maine international border. From our back window we can look across the St. John River and look into Canada. Oddly, it looks a lot like northern Maine.

The weather here is definitely not the same as in most other parts of Maine farther south. Last week on Thanksgiving Day we had 6 inches of snow accumulate, which for our location is a piece of cake. But none-the-less I was out the next day with our snowblower clearing our driveway and paths for our five dogs.

The weather station in use here is a wireless Davis Vantage-Pro with a rain collector heater to melt snow and convert the melt into inches. This station has been online for about two and a half years. To view my online weather please go to www.terrestrialworld.com/Current_Vantage_Pro.htm

Our low last night was 34.9 degrees at 12:35 AM
Our current conditions at 10:35 AM are:
39 degrees Fahrenheit
Humidity: 100%
Barometer 30.26 inches and steady
Winds: Calm
High wind: 17 mph at 7:32 AM
Visibility: Foggy less than one mile