By MARK HANOK
The jet stream will shift
southward this week and a
series of low pressure systems
will move well to our
south.
This will result in a dry
weather pattern through
the weekend, then rain or
wet snow early next week.
A major storm will slide
eastward from Tennessee
to the Carolinas on Friday,
and bring rain, sleet and
wet snow northward to Virginia.
However, a large area of
high pressure over the
Great Lakes, will maintain
very dry air, with a cold
northerly flow. Skies will
be mostly sunny with a
high around 40 degrees.
On Saturday brilliant
sunshine will continue with
very dry air and highs in
the mid-40s.
A storm system will
move eastward to the Ohio
Valley on Sunday; skies
will be partly sunny, and a
few showers may arrive
during the late afternoon,
but more likely at night,
when rain could mix with
or change to wet snow.
As the low moves south
our area region, skies will
be mostly cloudy on Monday,
with occasional rain
and highs in the upper
40’s.
A cool northwesterly
flow will take over on Tuesday
with intervals of clouds
and sunshine and highs in
the mid-40s.
Mark Hanok is an
Otego-based meteorologist.
Weather Watch
March 12, 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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