By MARK HANOK
Even with the major
storm that moved right
across our region on Saturday,
we got less than
two-thirds of an inch of
rain at most locations in
Otsego County, and for the
first three weeks of November,
total precipitation
for the month has been
only around one inch.
That’s only about 40 percent
of the normal precipitation.
Once again, the past
week showed the very reliable
correlation between a
``reverse temperature
anomaly’’ and dry weather
in Otsego County.
After a very mild start
to November, since Sunday
temperatures averaged
well below normal,
with a strong northwest
flow and the jet stream
diving southeastward from
central Canada to northern
Florida.
With this kind of pattern,
Montana is west of
the jet stream and misses
all the cold air, the southeastern
states stays unusually
cold for so early in
the season.
In our area, the cold,
dry weather pattern will
continue right through at
least early next week.
On Friday the Alberta
clipper that raced southeastward,
will redevelop
off the New England coast,
and reinforce the very cold
air, with variable cloudiness,
a northwesterly
wind, a few snow showers,
and highs only around 30
degrees.
On Saturday, high pressure
will build eastward
from the Great Lakes and
Ohio Valley and drier air
will take over with partly
to mostly sunny skies and
highs in the mid-30’s.
A westerly flow of cold,
dry air will prevail on Sunday,
with partly sunny
skies and highs from 35 to
40 degrees.
A storm system will
move north of the Great
Lakes on Monday and a
southwesterly flow ahead
of the low, will bring milder
air; look for partly sunny
skies and highs in the
low 40’s.
We may get a few snow
showers as a weak cold
front moves through the
area on Monday night,
then partly sunny skies
and highs from 35 to 40
degrees on Tuesday.
Mark Hanok is an
Otego-based meteorologist.
You can visit him on
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Weather Watch
November 20, 2008
Weather Watch
- 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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