By MARK HANOK
Even though it may appear
that we’ll get cloudy
skies and showers for most of
the weekend, when Hurricane
Ike slams into the Texas
coast and moves northwestward
and brings
torrential rains and flooding
to sections of eastern and
central Texas, this will signal
a continuation of sunny
or partly sunny skies in Otsego
County, with most or all
of the rainfall occurring at
night or early in the morning.
Temperatures will be
above normal through the
weekend, and when it will
feel cool when we get back to
normal temperatures next
week.
On Friday a low pressure
trough will move slowly eastward
to the Ohio Valley,
blocked by a ridge of high
pressure over New England.
Skies will be partly sunny in
the Cooperstown area, with
a gradual increase in humidity
and highs in the low 70’s.
A warm front associated
with the low, will stay to the
west and south of our region,
and skies will be partly sunny
in Otsego County with
highs in the mid-70’s and
moderate humidity.
After a few showers on
Saturday night and early
Sunday morning, a southwesterly
flow of warm, humid
air will take over on
Sunday; skies will be partly
sunny with highs from 75 to
80 degrees.
As a cold front approaches
from the northwest, we’ll get
occasional showers Sunday
night and early Monday,
then intervals of clouds and
sunshine on Monday afternoon;
highs from 73 to 78 degrees.
As low pressure moves to
northern New England, a
northwesterly flow will bring
cooler, drier air on Tuesday
and Wednesday, with partly
sunny skies and highs in the
upper 60’s.
Mark Hanok is an Otsego
based meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
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Weather Watch
September 11, 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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