By MARK HANOK
Since cloudy skies have
prevailed much of the time
during the past week, it
doesn’t seem like a very dry
November. But during the
first 12 days of the month,
precipitation has amounted
to less than a quarter of an
inch at most locations in
Otsego County, and that’s
about 20% of the normal
precipitation.
Since temperatures have
been colder than normal
the past few days, it doesn’t
seem like a warm November.
However, temperatures
have averaged four
degrees above normal so far
this month, and we’ll go
right back to very mild
weather to start this weekend,
as the jet stream stays
well to the north, and a series
of storm systems move
to our west and bring a
southwesterly flow.
This pattern will change
on Sunday as a cold front
moves through our area
and upper-level winds shift
to the northwest and another
large high pressure
area dips southward from
central Canada.
On Friday as low pressure
lifts northward to
western New York, rain in
the morning will give way
to variable cloudiness and a
few breaks of sunshine in
the afternoon, with a southerly
wind and highs around
60 degrees.
Another low pressure
system will develop along
the mid-Atlantic coast and
track to the east of New
England on Saturday, keeping
the heavy rain well to
the east across southern
and eastern New England.
We’ll get occasional showers
and highs well above
normal, in the mid and upper
50’s. As the storm
moves well to the northeast
on Sunday a northwesterly
flow will take over.
Weather Watch
November 13, 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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