Spot report
🇺🇸Penobscot River West Branch, Maine
updated 06:45 local · open-meteo
🌀 Whitewater· dam-release class IV-V river · base: Millinocket
McKay Station releases below Ripogenus Dam feed Exterminator and the Cribworks, the East's hardest commercially rafted rapid, under Mount Katahdin.
Heads up · Class V Cribworks; remote private logging roads
Wind
23 km/h
gusts 46 · from SE
Water
flat
inland — lakes and rivers
Road
Snowy
snow and ice — chains or stay put
Daylight
06:52 → 17:52
5 °C air · 0.0 mm · UV 0
What's rideable right now
Wind
Water
Mountain
River
⛵
Sailing
FIRING23 km/h — a proper breeze
Best windows this week
- Sat 6am–5pmFIRING
26 km/h — a proper breeze · 12 h
- Thu 6am–5pmFIRING
22 km/h — a proper breeze · 12 h
- Wed 6am–9amFIRING
22 km/h — a proper breeze · 4 h
This week
Today
22 km/h
2–6 °C · 4 mm
⛵Sailing
Thu
22 km/h
1–6 °C
⛵Sailing
Fri
18 km/h
0–7 °C · 15 mm · 3 cm snow
🛶Kayak & canoe
Sat
26 km/h
-3–7 °C · 2 mm
⛵Sailing
Sun
18 km/h
-4–5 °C
⛵Sailing
Mon
17 km/h
-1–12 °C
🧗Climb
Tue
15 km/h
4–10 °C
🛶Kayak & canoe
bars: daily max wind · best sport each day
Pack list
- No water temp inland → judge by air — 5 °C. Lakes run colder than they look.
- 23 km/h → 8–10 m kite
- UV 0 — low → no sun worries today
- 5 °C → softshell over a mid-layer
- Daylight 06:52–17:52 → golden hour from 16:52
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