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Sorry, but no winner for my weekly weather quiz question. Here it is for the last time. In meteorology what is meant by the term “La Nada?” Climate scientists know that couple, ocean-atmosphere processes in the Pacific Ocean can have a tremendous influence of climate patterns worldwide. These events, called El Niño and La Niña, alternate with each other, but their cycles have pauses called La Nada. This is where we are now. A couple of months ago, experts began to see that La Niña was clearly dissipating. As they conducted the observations, they noticed that indeed this was the case. By early August, the process had disappeared entirely, leaving no traces behind. But the switch from La Niña to El Niño does not occur immediately, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) oceanographer and climatologist Bill Patzert explains. He calls this transition period we’re in La Nada, which roughly translates into “the nothing.”
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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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A high pressure ridge (Shaded “Arch” shape with blue arrows) moves in and warms us up for the holiday weekend. The Beavers will be home against Sacramento State today at 1PM and the weather will be bright, sunny, dry and quite warm with the high temperature 90-92 (hotter on the field). The Ducks will play against LSU in Arlington, Texas with game time at 5 PM our time 7 PM CDT and it will be sunny and hot with high temperature about 101 degrees by late afternoon then slowly cooling as the game progresses. The roof on the stadium is expected to be closed which would make a difference in the conditions on the field cooling it down to 72-75 degrees inside.
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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: Sunny and much warmer today, clear tonight, sunny and warmer Sunday and still sunny and very warm Monday (Labor Day), with clear nights highs 92-95 cooling a bit to near 90 Monday lows 48-53. Sunny Tuesday through Thursday with clear nights, then mostly sunny Friday highs 92-94 cooling to near 90 Friday lows 52-55. (seasonal averages high 80 low 50)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Sunny and hot today and Sunday, clear tonight, mostly clear Sunday night, mostly sunny and very warm Monday (Labor Day), then mostly clear Monday night highs 95-92 lows 56-54. Mostly sunny Tuesday, mostly clear at night, sunny Wednesday through Friday with clear nights highs 92-96 cooling to near 90 Friday lows near 56. (seasonal averages high 82 low 54)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Patchy coastal fog this AM, clear tonight, partly cloudy Sunday night with patchy fog late at night and early Monday AM, sunny Monday afternoon (Labor Day), then mostly clear with patchy fog late Monday night highs 70-65 lows 53-50. Patchy AM fog, then mostly sunny Tuesday through Friday with mostly clear nights highs near 70 lows near 53. (seasonal averages high 66 low 52).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Sunny and warmer today and Sunday, clear at night, mostly sunny in the AM, partly cloudy Monday (Labor Day) afternoon, mostly clear Monday night free air freezing level 15,000 ft. today and tonight, then 14,000 ft. Sunday through Monday night highs 80-83 cooling to near 80 Monday lows 48-50. Mostly sunny Tuesday, sunny Wednesday and Thursday with clear nights, then mostly sunny Friday free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Tuesday rising to 15,000 ft. late Tuesday night, then 15,000 ft. Wednesday through Thursday night, and 14,000 ft. Friday highs near 80-84 cooling to near 80 Friday lows 55-52.
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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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