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Advisories: NOT AT THIS TIME.
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An upper level low (“U” shape in blue arrows shaded in grey) is sliding down Western British Columbia toward us. The Labor Day Holiday weekend will be really nice. The temperatures won’t be summer hot, but rather average for the time of the year, but it will be dry. A weak frontal system will try to move through Oregon Monday, mainly to our north, with not much effect once again. A high pressure ridge will warm us up next week just in time for the kids to go back to school. [Note: at 6:58 AM today it was officially the “Full Sturgeon Moon” which is a blue moon. What is a blue moon? It is the second full moon to appear in the same month. The moon itself will not actually appear to be blue in color.]
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Clear tonight with areas of smoke, sunny and a bit warmer Saturday and Sunday, clear nights, mostly sunny Monday (Labor Day), then mostly clear Monday night lows 49-46 warming to 52 Monday night highs 82-84. Sunny and warm Tuesday through Friday with mostly clear nights lows 50-57 highs 88-86. (seasonal averages high 83 low 54)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly clear tonight, mostly cloudy Saturday AM, sunny Saturday afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy late Saturday night and Sunday AM with patchy AM coastal fog, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear Sunday night, then partly cloudy Monday (Labor Day) and Monday night lows 48-52 highs 64-62. Mostly sunny Tuesday and Wednesday with mostly clear nights, partly cloudy Thursday and Thursday night, then mostly cloudy Friday highs 60-65 lows 50-52. (seasonal averages high 66 low 52).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Clear tonight, sunny and a bit warmer Saturday and Sunday with clear nights, mostly clear Sunday night, mostly sunny Monday (Labor Day), then mostly clear Monday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. tonight through Saturday night, 14,000 ft. Sunday, 13,000 ft. Sunday night, then 14,000 ft. Monday and Monday night lows 40-43 highs 68-72. Mostly sunny Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly clear at night, mostly sunny Thursday AM, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon and night, then mostly sunny Friday free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Tuesday through Friday highs 78-80 cooling to 73 Friday lows 43-49 cooling to 45 Thursday night.
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**Because weather forecasting is a combination of science, intuition, and timing there can be no absolute guarantees that individual forecasts will be 100% accurate. Nature is in a constant state of flux and sudden unexpected weather events can happen.
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