GRAY – No, my friend, it is not all in your head. It really is rainier than usual and you have every right to complain.

The question is, of course, to whom do you direct those complaints?

The rain on Friday – 3.19 inches of it by 4 p.m. – broke an 85-year-old record. Sheets of rain that started around midnight never relented as the day progressed. By suppertime, the 1922 record of 2.43 inches for the date was long gone.

“It really was an impressive rainfall,” said Michael Cempa, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Gray.

But Friday was not a soggy, dripping fluke. The entire month of June has been a washout, according to figures from the weather service.

On average, we should see 2.09 inches of rain by this point in the month. Instead, 6.43 inches of soaking misery have fallen across the state.

Like the rain itself, the stats keep coming.

Since the start of the year, 23.38 inches of precipitation has fallen. The average is 21.54.

Since spring began, Mainers have had very few perfect weekends, weather-wise, and this weekend looks even gloomier than most.

Saturday will be the high point, Cempa said, but he did not recommend planning a picnic. Rain should come only in the form of scattered showers. But by Saturday night, steady rain should resume and continue all day Sunday.

And then?

“The rest of the week is questionable,” Cempa said.

He could provide little optimism. When pressed on when the weather would improve, he would not commit.

“When you get into these patterns, it is hard to say when it’s going to end,” he said.

The recent rainfall he blamed on an upper-level low lingering over the area.

“The faster that moves out,” he said, “the better off we’ll be.”