We’ve had some good rain, our ponds are full and icing back up, and our wooded streams are swollen and flowing fast.
More than half of Maine is in moderate drought and most of the rest of the state remains abnormally dry. The precipitation is not soaking down into the earth enough; it’s becoming runoff that is taken by the streams to the ponds and sea. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 2 [stream] and 3 [pond], 2025.)