By MARK HANOK
After the intense heat
wave, followed by cooler air
but continued above normal
temperatures, we got a refreshing
change to a much
cooler weather pattern.
During the upcoming
week, the large upper-level
trough will push eastward,
allowing for high pressure to
build in from the west, and
settle over the Ohio Valley.
With a west to southwest
flow around the high, temperatures
will get back to
normal as the summer season
begins this weekend.
On Friday, the upper-level
low will still be in place
over eastern Canada, but a
westerly flow will bring milder
air, along with the chance
of a shower, as cold, unstable
air continues aloft. With intervals
of clouds and sunshine,
highs will be in the
lower 70’s.
Skies will be partly to
mostly sunny on Saturday,
with highs from 75 to 80 degrees.
A warm front will approach
from the south and
west on Sunday, bringing the
chance of showers in the afternoon,
but most of the time
skies will be partly sunny,
and highs in the mid to upper
70s.
Early next week, the front
will become stationary not
far to the south, bringing
variable cloudiness on Monday,
with a few showers and
the chance of a thunderstorm.
Highs will be in the
mid-70s.
On Tuesday, skies will be
partly sunny with the chance
of a shower and highs around
80 degrees.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the Web at
http://members.aol.com.
Weather Watch
June 19, 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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