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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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A high pressure ridge (“Arch” shape on yellow line) is helping to dry us out, but just for a day. A trough of low pressure (“U” shape on the yellow line) will be taking over returning the wet weather pattern. A frontal system pushed through to the southeast dragging rain along with it and another storm system offshore is moving toward us now. There will be even more frontal systems (position shown is Saturday) that will keep the showers around through the weekend.
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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 cloudy with patchy fog late tonight, cloudy with patchy fog and a slight (20%) chance of rain Thursday AM, a good (50%) chance of rain in the afternoon (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), a (40%) chance of rain (under 0.10 in. of rain possible) Thursday night (under 0.10 in. of rain possible) and Friday AM, rain in the afternoon (0.10 in. of rain possible) and evening, showers (0.25 in. of rain possible) late Friday night and Saturday, then showers likely (60%) Saturday night lows 32-40 cooling to 34 Saturday night highs 49-52 cooling to 45 Saturday. Mostly cloudy with showers likely (60%) Sunday and Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of showers Monday (Presidents’ Day), a good (50%) chance of rain Monday night and Tuesday, then mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday highs 46-53 lows 35-42. (seasonal averages high 51 low 35)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Partly cloudy tonight, mostly cloudy with a (30%) chance of rain Thursday, a slight (20%) chance of rain Thursday night, a (30%) chance of rain Friday (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), rain in the evening, then rain and snow showers late Friday night (0.20 in. of rain possible) through Saturday night (colder) lows 33-38 cooling to 35 Saturday night highs 54-48. Mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers Sunday, showers likely (60%) Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of showers Monday (Presidents’ Day), a (40%) chance of rain Monday night through Tuesday night, then mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of rain Wednesday highs 48-56 lows 36-42. (seasonal averages high 54 low 37)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Partly cloudy tonight, mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain (under 0.10 in. of rain possible) Thursday and Thursday night (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance rain Friday AM, rain in the afternoon (0.10 in. of rain possible) and evening, then showers late Friday night (0.45 in. of rain possible) through Saturday night lows 38-43 cooling to near 40 Saturday night highs 53-56 cooling to 48 Saturday. Mostly cloudy with showers likely (60%) Sunday and Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of showers Monday (Presidents’ Day), then a good (50%) chance of rain Monday night through Tuesday, then a (30%) chance of showers Tuesday night and Wednesday highs 49-55 lows 40-44. (seasonal averages high 53 low 40).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Partly cloudy tonight, mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of rain or snow Thursday afternoon, cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain or snow Thursday night, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain or snow Friday AM, rain or snow in the evening, rain or snow showers late Friday night, then mostly cloudy with snow showers Saturday and Saturday night free air freezing level 5,500 ft. tonight, snow level 5,500 ft. Thursday, 5,000 ft. Thursday night and Friday, 4,500 ft. falling to 2,500 ft. late Friday night, then at the surface Saturday and Saturday night lows 24-30 cooling to 22 Saturday night highs 39-32. Mostly cloudy with snow showers likely (60%) Sunday, rain and snow showers likely (60%) Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain and snow showers Monday (Presidents’ Day), a good (50%) chance of rain and snow Monday night, a good (50%) chance of Tuesday, a (40%) chance of rain Tuesday night, them mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain and snow Wednesday snow level at the surface Sunday, 3,000 ft. Sunday night, 3,500 ft. Monday, 4,500 ft. Monday night, then 6,000 ft. Tuesday through Wednesday highs 33-42 lows 23-30.
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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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