By MARK HANOK
Precipitation was less
than half of normal across
our area in November. The
total precipitation was only
1.44” at our weather station
in Otego.
Despite the unusually
mild weather during the
first half of November, temperatures
were so far below
normal during the last two
weeks
It looks like a strong
northwesterly flow aloft
will continue to bring cold
air from central Canada
during the upcoming week,
as the storm tracks stays
well to the west and south.
This equals a continuation
of a generally dry weather
pattern.
December began with
very cold air funneling
southward around the west
side of a major Great Lakes
storm, and with a strong
northwesterly flow. As the
storm pulled northward to
Lake Huron by afternoon,
there were snow showers
as far south as the northwest
suburbs of Atlanta.
At the same time, a
warm front crossed the
northern Rockies, followed
by very strong westerly
winds that gusted to over
60 MPH in north central
Montana, bringing unseasonably
mild air.
On Friday a northwest
flow of cold air will take
over again, with partly sunny
skies and highs in the
low 30’s. WeÆll get a few
lake-effect snow showers
but the accumulating snow
will stay to our north and
west. Skies will be partly
sunny again on Saturday,
with only a few snow showers
and highs just 27 to 32
degrees.
A major ocean storm will
intensify well east of Cape
Cod on Sunday, while an
upper-level trough slides
across the eastern Great
Lakes. After a few snow
showers in the morning,
skies will be partly sunny
in the afternoon with highs
only 25 to 30 degrees. Partly
sunny skies will continue
on Monday with highs in
the low 30’s. A storm system
will move west of the
region on Tuesday bringing
milder air and the chance
of rain or wet snow.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
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Weather Watch
December 4, 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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