By MARK HANOK
It felt more like the middle
of winter during the six
days from Tuesday through
Sunday, as temperatures
stayed below 30 degrees,
averaging 10 to 15 degrees
below normal.
Although we got lake-effect
snow over the weekend
and several inches of wet
snow across our region on
Tuesday, precipitation has
averaged less than half of
normal across our area, and
this dry weather pattern is
not likely to change during
the upcoming week. Temperatures
will stay around
normal for late November,
with a zonal, west to east
flow, that will keep the
coldest air to the north.
Thanksgiving Day will
feature moderately cold
late November weather,
with temperatures a few
degrees below normal. With
an upper-level trough over
the Great Lakes, look for
variable cloudiness and a
few lake-effect snow showers,
highs in the mid-30’s.
As winds shift to the
southwest ahead of another
cold front, skies will be
partly sunny on Friday,
with highs around 40 degrees.
A northwesterly flow
will take over on Saturday,
with mostly cloudy skies
and a few snow showers;
highs in the mid to upper
30’s. Skies will be partly
sunny on Sunday and Monday,
with a few snow showers
and highs around 40
degrees.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
aol.com/weathergazette.
Weather Watch
November 27, 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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