En-route Portsmouth, NH 43°08.7N, 70°32.8W

Still 9nm from Portsmouth. Amazingly cold (extraordinary: a few days ago we were sailing shirtless) and we just heard this severe weather alert on the marine weather radio [I then downloaded it]:

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
310 PM EDT SUN SEP 16 2007

FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND

EARLY MONDAY MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN MAINE AND NORTHERN.
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE...

.HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON WILL BRING THE COOLEST AIR SO FAR THIS LATE SUMMER TO NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND. WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT... TEMPERATURES WILL DROP QUICKLY

THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES ACROSS
MUCH OF THE AREA.

Those geese were on to something.