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.
All those days at the beginning
of this month, when Montana
was consistently warmer
than Georgia and the Carolinas,
combined with the strong winds
last
Thursday, set into motion an
extraordinarily dry and sunny
weather pattern.
During the first 17 days of
February there’s been measurable
precipitation on only four
days, and with only a third of an
inch of precipitation, that’s
about 15percent of normal.
Even more remarkable is the
fact that we got little more than
a trace of snow for the month,
through Wednesday morning,
February 18.
Since we’ll miss most of the
precipitation as a series of storm
systems miss our area to the
north and to the south during
the upcoming week, there’s an
excellent chance that this will
turn out to be the least-snowiest
February ever recorded in our
area.
On Friday a storm system
will lift northward to Quebec,
and strong northwesterly winds
will bring colder air; with variable
cloudiness and a few snow
showers highs will be in the upper
20’s.
The northwest flow will also
reinforce the dry weather pattern,
with partly sunny skies
and highs in the mid-30’s on
Saturday.
As a storm system tracks well
to our south across the mid-Atlantic
states and out to sea to
the east of the Virginia coast on
Sunday, we’ll get intervals of
clouds and sunshine, a few snow
showers and highs from 25 to 30
degrees.
With a large upper-level
trough in place over eastern
Canada and a northwest flow at
the surface and aloft, skies will
be partly sunny on Monday and
Tuesday with highs in the low
30’s.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist.
Weather Watch
February 19, 2009
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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