By MARK HANOK
The Susquehanna River
level will be unusually low
for the General Clinton Canoe
Regatta during Memorial
Day weekend.
April has been a sunny
month and the sun is high
in the sky with a high evaporation
rate this time of
year. This combined with
the record-breaking high
temperatures early this
week, and the river level
could actually be one of the
lowest on record by late
May - unless we are lucky
enough to get significant
rainfall.
That would require a
complete change in the
weather pattern and is not
likely.
As low pressure moves
to our west on Friday,
warmer air will return,
along with variable cloudiness,
some sunshine, and a
few showers.
Highs will be in the low
70s.
On Saturday, a cold
front will slide south of our
region, and after the chance
of a shower early in the
morning skies will become
partly sunny with a cooler
northwest flow, but highs
in the mid-60’s will still be
a few degrees warmer than
normal.
The front will move well
to the south on Sunday and
mild, dry air will take over
with partly to mostly sunny
skies and highs in the low
60’s.
As showers stay to the
south, look for another
partly sunny day on Monday
and Tuesday with highs
from 60 to 65 degrees.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist.
Weather Watch
April 30, 2009
Weather watch
- 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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