By MARK HANOK
During the past week, the
Northeast got the coolest
weather in the nation. That’s
because of a series of low
pressure systems that rotated
around a large upper-level
trough in place over eastern
Canada. This provided unusually
cold air aloft, and a
very unstable atmosphere.
Although we received only
about half an inch at our
weather station in Otego so
far this month, it seems like
much more precipitation because
there’s been at least
some rain on most days.
With a northwest flow
continuing, temperatures
have averaged about two degrees
below normal so far in
August.
During the upcoming
week, there will be a gradual
warming trend, as the upper-
level low moves to the
east and high pressure builds
eastward to the mid-Atlantic
states.
On Friday, skies will be
partly sunny with highs in
the mid-70s. As a cold front
approaches from western
New York, there will be scattered
showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon and
evening. Then as a large high
settles southward to the
Great Lakes, beautiful
weather will take over, with
mostly sunny skies, low humidity,
a northwest breeze,
and highs in the middle 70’s.
Look for the same kind of
weather on Sunday and Monday,
with mostly sunny skies
and low humidity, and highs
in the lower 80s.
Skies will be partly sunny
again on Tuesday, with the
chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon,
on a more humid southwest
flow.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
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Weather Watch
August 14, 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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