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Here is my weekly weather quiz question for the last time. You’ve no doubt heard about the tornadoes that struck in the eastern half of the country recently. Here is my question. Has anyone found a way to stop tornadoes? Please explain your answer. Here is the correct answer. You have to consider that the tornado is part of something bigger – the supercell thunderstorm. Unless you disrupt the supercell thunderstorm itself, you would likely have another tornado, even if you were able to destroy the first. The thunderstorm’s energy is much greater than the tornado. No one has tried to disrupt the tornado because the methods to do so could likely cause even more damage than the tornado. Detonating a hydrogen bomb, for example, to disrupt a tornado would be even more deadly and destructive than the tornado itself. Lesser things (like huge piles of dry ice or smaller conventional weaponry) would be too hard to deploy in the right place fast enough, and would likely not have enough impact to affect the tornado much anyway. I’ll have another weather quiz question for you 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. Good luck.
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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis: Sunny and warmer today, mostly clear tonight, mostly sunny and warmer Sunday, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Sunday night, partly cloudy Monday and Monday night highs 84-88 cooling back to 84 Monday lows near 54. Partly cloudy Tuesday and Tuesday night, mostly sunny Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with mostly clear skies at night highs 84-79 lows 56-54. (seasonal averages high 80 low 51)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Mostly cloudy this AM, sunny this afternoon, mostly clear this evening, partly cloudy late tonight and Sunday AM, sunny with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and evening, partly cloudy Sunday night and Monday AM, sunny in the afternoon, then partly cloudy Monday night highs 90-87 lows 64-62 cooling to near 60 Monday night. Partly cloudy Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night, mostly sunny Wednesday through Friday, with mostly clear nights highs 86-82 warming back to 86 Friday lows near 58. (seasonal averages high 83 low 56)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly cloudy with patchy fog this AM, sunny this afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy tonight and Sunday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, mostly cloudy Sunday night, then AM clouds, mostly sunny in the afternoon Monday and partly cloudy Monday night highs 68-63 lows near 55. Partly cloudy and pleasant Tuesday through Wednesday, mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday, mostly clear Thursday night, then mostly sunny Friday highs 66-68 lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 64 low 52).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Mostly sunny with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, mostly clear tonight, mostly sunny Sunday AM, partly cloudy with a (40%) chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon, a good (50%) chance of thunderstorms Sunday night, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Monday and Monday night free air freezing level 14,000 ft. today and tonight, then 15,000 ft. Sunday through Monday night highs 78-82 cooling to 76 Monday lows 56-50. Partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Tuesday and Tuesday evening, partly cloudy Tuesday night through Wednesday night, mostly sunny Thursday AM, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon and Thursday night, mostly sunny Friday AM, then partly cloudy Friday afternoon free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Monday through Wednesday night, then 14,000 ft. Thursday through Friday highs 74-70 warming to 76 Thursday and Friday lows 48-42.
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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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