By MARK HANOK
Each day during the past
week featured better weather
than most local weather
forecasts indicated. That’s
because most of the showers
and thunderstorms shifted
southward, with a series of
upper-level lows and a northwest
flow aloft.
During the long Fourth of
July weekend, a stationary
front, not far to the south
and east, will keep most of
the humid air and showers
and thunderstorms across
the mid-Atlantic states
northward to southeastern
New York, while we enjoy
beautiful summer weather.
On the Fourth of July, as
a weak cold front moves to
the south, skies will be partly
sunny, with moderate levels
of humidity and highs from
75 to 80 degrees; afternoon
and evening showers and
thunderstorms will most
likely stay to the south.
On Saturday, skies will be
partly to mostly sunny with
low humidity; once again,
showers and thunderstorms
will develop in the more humid
air from central Pennsylvania
to the lower Hudson
Valley and southern New
England.
As high pressure builds
eastward to the Great Lakes,
Sunday will feature mostly
sunny skies and highs in the
low 80s.
Beautiful weather will
continue on Monday, with
partly sunny skies and highs
from 80 to 85 degrees.
A southerly flow ahead of
another cold front will bring
more humid air on Tuesday,
with a mix of clouds and sunshine,
and the chance of a
shower or thunderstorm in
the afternoon or evening;
highs will be in the mid-80’s.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
aol.com/weathergazette.
Weather Watch
July 3, 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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