By MARK HANOK
Many of our readers may
not be aware of some major
differences between a June
heat wave and an August
heat wave. In early June the
angle of the sun is already
much higher than it is even
in late July or early August,
and the sun is getting higher
in the sky each day. With
this high-angle sun, an already
hot and very humid
day actually seems even
more oppressive.
By early August, the sun
sets earlier each day, with
longer evenings. In contrast,
the sun sets after 8:40 p.m.
in mid-June, and there’s not
much cooling until later in
the evening. In addition, we
are not yet accustomed to hot
weather so early in the season,
another reason why a
June heat wave seems hotter
than a heat wave later in the
summer.
Although we finally got
back to cooler and less humid
weather, temperatures have
continued above normal,
with all the cool air out west,
including the most snow on
record for so late in the season
in the Cascades of Washington
State.
On Friday, temperatures
will be in the low 80s, with
low humidity and brilliant
sunshine, as a southwest
flow develops ahead of the
storm system that will bring
additional heavy rains to areas
in the upper Midwest
that already got record breaking
flooding.
On Saturday, that low
pressure system will slide
eastward to the Great Lakes,
but skies will be partly sunny
in our area, with an increase
in humidity and highs
from 80 to 85 degrees. The
showers and thunderstorms
will likely hold off until late
afternoon or evening.
A northwesterly flow will
take over on Sunday, with
partly sunny skies.
The weather will be spectacular
for the Hall of Fame
Game in Cooperstown on
Monday: skies will be mostly
sunny in the morning and
partly sunny in the afternoon,
with highs around 80
degrees. As a cold front approaches
from the northwest,
showers and thunderstorms
will arrive but not until evening.
Showers on Tuesday
morning will give way to
clearing in the afternoon,
with highs back to normal in
the middle 70s.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
aol.com/weathergazette.
Weather Watch
June 12, 2008
Weather Watch
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- Weather watch The Susquehanna River level will be unusually low for the General Clinton Canoe Regatta during Memorial Day weekend.
- Weather Watch It’s really uncanny how the very dry weather pattern has continued in this area despite the succession of major storms that have moved to the west and south.
- Weather Watch Now that north has become a synonym for sunshine and south has become a synonym for rain, there’s no way that this extremely dry weather pattern can change at least for the next four weeks.
- Weather Watch March was the third straight month with below normal precipitation, and it looks like April will also turn out to be drier than normal.
- Weather Watch Temperatures were near normal in March, with precipitation around an inch below normal.
- Weather Watch On Friday a major storm will move to the Ohio Valley, while high pressure builds southward from eastern Canada. Skies will be partly sunny with highs from 55 to 60 degrees.
- Weather Watch When it’s warmer to the north and cooler to the south, it’s so easy to get into an extremely dry weather pattern in Otsego County. The weather forecast in last week’s weather column was more optimistic than other local weather forecasts, but the weather was actually much better than even we predicted.
- Weather Watch The jet stream will shift southward this week and a series of low pressure systems will move well to our south.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we predicted at the beginning of the month, it was one of the driest Februaries on record in Otsego County and throughout most of central and eastern New York. Thanks to the extreme upside-down temperature pattern with much warmer weather in Montana than in Georgia, and strong winds on Monday and Tuesday, an extremely dry weather pattern will be the theme for at least the next two to three weeks.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we’ve been predicting for the past month, this is turning out to be an exceptionally dry February - one of the driest on record in central and eastern New York.
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