This week will be , for the early part at least, hot. Autumn begins at 2:19 PM Tuesday, but it won’t feel like it. Today will be sunny & very warm with a high of 92, the record is 95, but 75 is average for the date. Tuesday for the Autumnal Equinox it will be sunny & hot with a high of 95. Wednesday will “cool down” to 91. It will still be warmer than normal Thursday cooling even more down to 80. A peek at next weekend looks like sunshine with highs 80-85. All of this heat will be due to a High Pressure Ridge that will keep the offshore airflow over Western Oregon.
It’s quiz time again. Here is this week’s question: Lightning can occur without a thunderstorm. There are a couple of other ways lightning can be generated, what are they? Please give your answer as a comment. The first person to answer the question correctly wins a week of free personalized weather forecasts to suit your needs. Good luck.
Your Saturday will start off wet due to a cold front coming through, then just a chance of afternoon showers. If you are going to the Ducks game the chance of rain will diminish as the game goes on. I would wear the rain gear and take it off when things dried out. The high will be near 70. Sunday things start to improve after some morning fog or low clouds. Look for mostly sunny skies and a high of 81. Monday will be much warmer at 92 and then for the beginning of Autumn (2:19 PM Tuesday) a hot 95 degrees. Things will cool back down to the 80s by late next week.
Sunday will be a great day for the Sole Support for Parkinson’s Walk at Alton Baker Park. The event will start at about 1:00 PM and I’ll be your master of ceremonies. Come, join me for a walk for a good cause on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Thursday was cooler than normal with a high of only 73 in Eugene. Today will be an improvement as we go back to above normal getting to about 84. A new Cold Front will move through on Saturday dropping us back into the low 70s for highs. That sounds like Fall weather and as you know Autumn begins at 2:19 PM Tuesday. But no, like a rubber band, the temperatures will spring up to the low 80s Sunday, the low 90s Monday and Tuesday and then cooling to the low to mid 80s by Thursday. It’s rare, but we have had this same pattern occur in the past this late in the season. Remember, we had a winner in my weekly quiz already so the new one will start next Monday.
Most of Wednesday was cloudy in the Willamette Valley and some of us got some sprinkles. What’s next? We’re at the back of the front now so that means improving weather. We’ll see some AM fog or low clouds and then sunshine and warmer for your Thursday with the high temperature warming to about 76. Warmth will continue Friday as we get to 85. A Low pressure trough offshore will be held off by weak high pressure until Friday night and Saturday when the next Cold front moves in to bring clouds and a chance of rain again. Will be lucky if we hit 80 on Saturday. Hang on, Autumn begins at 2:19 PM Tuesday and, as usual, that means we’ll get back to a short period of hot weather with highs into the low and possibly the mid 90s. That’s why we love the Pacific Northwest.
Autumn begins next Tuesday at 2:19 PM with the Autumnal Equinox. Our weather pattern will be one typical for late summer-early Autumn as a trough of Low Pressure (shaded area) sends frontal systems our way. One cold front is coming through Oregon today and will bring with it a chance of showers by afternoon. Tuesday’s high was 84 and today we should get to the mid to upper 70s at best. Thursday will be a quiet day weatherwise with the high reaching about 77. A new front will move in by late in the day Friday to cool us off to the low 70s by Sunday. The beginning of next week will warm up again proving we’ll be on that roller coaster of changing weather for a while.
A warm front will bring enough moisture to start today off with low clouds. By afternoon these clouds will clear off and the temperature should rise above yesterday’s high of 79 for Eugene. If those pesky clouds hang around too long we’ll be lucky to see those low to mid 80s. The cold front will follow by late Wednesday as the high reaches about 80 and bring a chance of showers for Wednesday night and early Thursday when the high temperature will cool to the 70s.
We have a winner in this week’s weather question. The answer came in Monday evening. What tornado almost changed American pop culture? Congratulations to Erin Stewart who correctly answered the question. The answer as you can see from her comment was the tornado that ravaged Tupelo, Mississippi on April 5, 1936. The twister killed more than 200 people. The future “Star” of “Rock-n-roll” and pop culture who survived was Elvis Aaron Presley who was an infant at the time. Next weeks quiz will start Monday.
Here is this week’s question. What tornado almost changed American pop culture? Remember, the first person to correctly answer the question wins one week of free personalized weather forecasts. Please put you answer in the comments section. Good luck.
How about those storms Saturday night? The rain hit Autzen Stadium just in time to give the Ducks control of the game. Our weather pattern will be dominated by trough of Low Pressure offshore, shaded area, that is undercutting the high pressure ridge that has been giving us the warm weather. Today will be mostly cloudy with a cool high temperature of 76 degrees. Tuesday will warm up a bit, to the mid 80s then start to cool down as another disturbance comes in Wednesday bringing a chance of showers by Wednesday night.
Your Saturday will see 90 degrees again, but that will be the end of it. Temperatures will cool to the 80s and then the 70s as a series of weak frontal systems move through. The storm that comes through on Thursday will bring the chance o rain with it.
The weekly quiz was not answered correctly. Here is the question again: How have athletic shoes been used in charting ocean currents? The answer is rather simple. Back in 1990 a Korean container ship bound for the United States ran into some very rough seas. As a result 80,000 pairs of Nike shoes were swept overboard. Oceanographers have since been retrieving the shoes on beaches from Alaska to Oregon to Hawaii. The shoes turned out to make nice “tracers,” which allow validation of computer models of the ocean currents. The atmosphere is greatly affected by the underlying oceans. Computer models of water and climate processes are now beginning to link both the sea and air as one system. Next week’s quiz starts on Monday.
A strong High Pressure Ridge over the Pacific will heat us up for the next couple of days bringing back the “Dog Days of Summer” for a short time. A trough of low pressure ( shaded area resembling the letter “U” behind the ridge (shaded area resembling an upside down “U”) will follow it returning clouds, cooler temperatures, and possible showers by the middle of next week. Look for today’s high to be in the low 90s and about 90 on Saturday. On Sunday the first of a couple of cold fronts will move in from the coast cooling the temperatures back to the low 80s and by Monday the 70s. The chance of rain may hold off until Wednesday.
Don’t forget this week’s weather quiz. Today is your last chance to get it right. Here’s the question: How have athletic shoes been used in charting ocean currents? Please place your answer as a response. The first person to correctly answer the question will win on one week of free weather forecasts. You can win only one time per year. Good luck.
