PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Southeast has been suffering under brutal heat, but the Northeast is also on pace for a record-setting summer of its own as a persistent hot and muggy weather pattern hangs on.

Last month was the second-hottest July on record and the ninth straight month with above-normal temperatures in Portland, Maine — a streak that includes the warmest March and April on record and the second-warmest May and July.

Much of the Northeast had the warmest meteorological spring on record for March, April and May. Meteorologist Mark Wysocki at Cornell University says it wouldn’t surprise him if those same places set records for the summer.

Boston’s temperatures have been above normal every month since January, while Philadelphia and New York have been warmer than usual since March.