By MARK HANOK
The second week and beginning
of the third week of
October averaged about 10
degrees warmer than normal,
then we got a major
change to a much cooler
weather pattern, but temperatures
have only averaged
about five degrees
cooler than normal during
the past week.
What hasn’t changed is
the very dry weather pattern;
about three-quarters
of an inch of rain so far this
month across most of our
area, and that’s about a
quarter of the normal precipitation.
With a northwesterly
flow of very cool air, and
the storm track just to our
south, any rain we get this
weekend will be limited to
Saturday night and Sunday
morning, and will be generally
light rain.
On Friday a large high
over New England, will
continue the beautiful
weather, with brilliant sunshine
and mild, dry air;
highs from 55 to 60 degrees.
A storm system will
move from the Ohio Valley
to the mid-Atlantic states
on Saturday, and the rain
will stay to the south. Skies
will be mostly sunny in the
morning, then increasing
cloudiness in the afternoon,
with highs again from 55 to
60 degrees.
After light rain or showers
Saturday night and
Sunday morning, skies will
be mostly cloudy on Sunday
afternoon, with highs in the
low 50’s.
As the storm moves east
of the New England coast
on Monday, a cool northwest
flow will take over,
with variable cloudiness
and some sunshine and a
few lake-effect rain showers;
highs only 45 to 50 degrees.
We could get a few
snow showers Monday
night, then partly sunny
skies and highs from 50 to
55 degrees on Tuesday.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
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Weather Watch
October 23, 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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