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Sorry, but no winner for this week’s weather quiz question.
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Here is the question for the last time. There is a way of determining local wind speeds without the use of any meteorological instruments. What is it called and who devised it? Now the answer.The scale was created in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort, an Irish-born Royal Navy Officer, while serving on the HMS Woolrich. The scale that carries Beaufort’s name had a long and complex evolution, from the previous work of others, including Daniel Defoe the century before, to when Beaufort was a top administrator in the Royal Navy in the 1830s when it was adopted officially and first used during Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle. In the early 19th Century, naval officers made regular weather observations, but there was no standard scale and so they could be very subjective – one man’s “stiff breeze” might be another’s “soft breeze”. Beaufort succeeded in standardizing the scale. The initial scale of thirteen classes (zero to twelve) did not reference wind speed numbers but related qualitative wind conditions to effects on the sails of a man-of-war, then the main ship of the Royal Navy, from “just sufficient to give steerage” to “that which no canvas sails could withstand.” At zero, all his sails would be up; at six, half of his sails would have been taken down; and at twelve, all sails would be stowed away. I’ll have a new weather quiz question for you starting next Monday. Please remember to post your answer as a comment by clicking on “no comments /comments” in the upper right hand portion of this page under the caption, then add your comment. The first person to post the correct answer will win a week of free personalized weather forecasts tailored to your needs. The answer has to be a comment to win. An email answer will not count.
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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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A high pressure ridge (“Arch” shape on the orange line) is sliding over thePacific Northwest bringing with it lots of sunshine and warmer temperatures. The weather will be great for the rest of the Lane County Fair that runs through Sunday. A frontal system will drop down on Monday and move through Tuesday bringing some clouds and cooling the temperatures a bit. It will warm back up again then start to cool down a bit as the Eugene Celebration starts next Friday.
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Here are your detailed forecasts.**
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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis: Mostly sunny and warmer today and not as warm Sunday with mostly clear nights, a mix of clouds and sun Monday AM, mostly sunny and a bit cooler in the afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy Monday night highs 90-82 lows near 55. Partly cloudy Tuesday through Wednesday evening, mostly cloudy Wednesday night, a mix of clouds and sun Thursday, partly cloudy Thursday evening, mostly cloudy Thursday night, a mix of clouds and sun Friday AM, then mostly sunny Friday afternoon highs near 85 lows near 57. (seasonal averages high 82 low 51)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Sunny today, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy tonight and Sunday AM, mostly sunny with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and evening, mostly clear Sunday night, partly cloudy Monday AM, mostly sunny Monday afternoon, then mostly clear Monday night highs 92-83 lows 55-58. Mostly sunny Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night, partly cloudy Wednesday through Thursday night, then sunny Friday highs near 88 lows 59-56. (seasonal averages high 84 low 55)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Partly cloudy today with patchy AM coastal fog, AM sun then partly cloudy this afternoon inland, partly cloudy in the evening, mostly cloudy with patchy fog late tonight and Sunday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, partly cloudy Sunday evening, mostly cloudy with patchy fog Sunday night and Monday AM, then mostly sunny in the afternoon, partly cloudy Monday night with patchy fog late highs 68-63 warming back to 67 Monday lows near 55. Patchy AM fog, partly cloudy Tuesday through Wednesday evening, mostly cloudy late Wednesday night through Thursday night, then partly cloudy Friday highs 70-60 lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 66 low 53).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Mostly sunny this AM, partly cloudy this afternoon and evening, mostly clear at night, mostly sunny Sunday AM, then partly cloudy Sunday afternoon through Monday AM, mostly sunny Monday afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy Monday night free air freezing level 14,000 ft. today through Sunday night, 15,000 ft. Monday, then 14,000 ft. Monday night highs 82-70 lows near 49. Partly cloudy Tuesday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy late Tuesday night, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening, partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday AM, then mostly sunny Friday afternoon free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Tuesday and Tuesday night, 15,000 ft. Wednesday, then 14,000 ft. Wednesday night through Friday highs 76-73 lows near 50.
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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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