By MARK HANOK
March was the third
straight month with below
normal precipitation, and it
looks like April will also
turn out to be drier than
normal.
There’s no way that we
can get heavy precipitation
when it’s so much warmer
to the north than to the
south.
Once again a powerful
storm system put into place
a wild reverse temperature
anomaly, and we got only
light rain when it should
have been a significant precipitation
event.
The jet stream will continue
out of the northwest,
and with these strong winds
aloft, most of the moisture
will stay to our south.
On Friday another storm
will move eastward from
the Ohio Valley, but it looks
like most of the rain will
fall across the central and
southern Appalachians and
the southeastern states.
After a partly sunny
morning, skies will be
mostly cloudy during the
afternoon with a few showers;
highs in the low 50s.
The best chance for a
steady rain is on Friday
night.
On Saturday, as another
major storm system takes
shape over the Rockies, low
pressure will slide east of
the Virginia coast on Saturday,
with rain over southeastern
New York and
southern New England.
We’ll get some light rain
or showers in the morning,
then mostly cloudy skies in
the afternoon; with a cool
northerly breeze, highs will
only be in the mid-40s.
Look for a major improvement
in the weather
for Easter Sunday.
Although a cool northerly
breeze will continue with
highs only from 45 to 50 degrees,
bright sunshine will
prevail all day.
As high pressure builds
eastward from the Great
Lakes, most sunny skies
will continue on Monday
and Tuesday.
Highs will be in the low
50s.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist.
Weather Watch
April 9, 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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