By MARK HANOK
The first eight days of
December averaged about
four degrees colder than
normal in our region, with
a strong northwesterly jet
stream bringing very cold
air southeastward from
northern Canada.
However, we can look
forward to a major change,
as temperatures stay above
normal through at least
next week, as the storm
track stays to our west and
a southwest flow takes over
at the surface and aloft.
On Friday as a major
storm system tracks northeastward
to northern New
England, northwesterly
winds will take over, and
after a few snow showers in
the morning, skies will be
partly sunny in the afternoon
with highs from 30 to
35 degrees.
It looks like beautiful
weather will continue all
weekend, with cold, dry air
on Saturday and delightfully
mild on Sunday.
A northwesterly flow
will continue on Saturday,
with partly to mostly sunny
skies and highs from 25 to
30 degrees.
As high pressure builds
eastward from the Ohio
Valley and a west to southwest
flow takes over, skies
will be mostly sunny on
Sunday with highs in the
low 40’s. The southwest
flow will continue early
next week, as a series of
storm systems slide across
the upper Midwest and
western Great Lakes, with
partly sunny skies and
highs from 40 to 45 degrees
on Monday.
With mostly cloudy
skies, there could be a few
rain showers on Tuesday,
as mild air continues in
place; highs again in the
low 40’s.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
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Weather Watch
December 11, 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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