By MARK HANOK
Sure enough, exactly as
we predicted, positively
spectacular September
weather continued for nearly
two weeks, with sunny or
partly sunny skies each
day, following the combination
of Hurricane Ike on the
Texas Gulf Coast and much
above normal temperatures
in the northern Great
Plains. Skies were brilliantly
sunny all week, but
the weather pattern will finally
change this weekend,
for the wrong reasons. Instead
of low pressure moving
from west to east, an
ocean storm will actually
back northwestward, and
bring a steady rainfall from
the mid-Atlantic states to
the lower Hudson Valley
and southern and eastern
New England, especially on
Friday and Saturday. Although
we will finally get
mostly cloudy skies on Friday
and Saturday with
even a few showers, most of
the rain will stay to our
south and east.
A large ridge of high
pressure centered over
northern New England,
will slide slowly eastward,
while the ocean storm
moves from southeast to
northwest. Sk ies will be
mostly cloudy in Otsego
County on Friday, with occasional
showers, as the
heavy rain stays to the
southeast of the Catskills;
highs will be in the low
60’s.
As the low pushes northward
on Saturday, drier air
will arrive, and showers in
the morning will give way
to some partial sunshine in
the afternoon, with highs
around 70 degrees. On Sunday
skies will be partly to
mostly sunny, as above normal
temperatures continue;
highs from 70 to 75 degrees.
As high pressure builds
eastward from the Great
Lakes, skies will be mostly
sunny Monday and Tuesday,
with highs in the mid-
60’s.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
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Weather Watch
September 25, 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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