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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.
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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: Partly cloudy this AM, mostly sunny and warm this afternoon, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms tonight, mostly cloudy Monday AM, partly cloudy in the afternoon and Monday night, mostly cloudy Tuesday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, then mostly clear Tuesday night highs 89-83 lows 57-54. Mostly sunny Wednesday, mostly clear in the evening, mostly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, mostly cloudy Thursday night and Friday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, partly cloudy Friday night and Saturday AM, then mostly sunny Saturday afternoon highs 84-78 lows 54-52. (seasonal averages high 81 low 51)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Partly cloudy this AM, sunny with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms late this afternoon and evening, partly cloudy late tonight, mostly cloudy Monday AM, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy late Monday night, mostly cloudy Tuesday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, then mostly clear Tuesday night highs 90-86 lows 63-58. Mostly sunny Wednesday through Saturday with mostly clear nights highs 83-85 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 this AM, mostly sunny this afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, mostly cloudy tonight, AM clouds, mostly sunny in the afternoon Monday, mostly clear in the evening, mostly cloudy late Monday night, AM clouds, mostly sunny Tuesday afternoon, then mostly cloudy Tuesday night highs near 66 lows near 55. Mostly cloudy Wednesday, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday, mostly clear Thursday night, then mostly sunny Friday and Saturday with mostly clear Friday night highs 69-65 warming to 68 Saturday lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 64 low 53).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Mostly sunny this AM, partly cloudy with a (40%) chance of thunderstorms this afternoon (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), thunderstorms likely (60%) this evening, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms late tonight (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of AM showers, a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Monday afternoon, a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Monday night, partly cloudy Tuesday, partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance thunderstorms in the evening, just partly cloudy late Tuesday night free air freezing level 15,000 ft. today and tonight, snow level above 8,000 ft. Monday, then free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Monday night through Tuesday night highs 82-76 lows 54-48. Partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and evening, partly cloudy at night, mostly sunny Thursday AM, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon and Thursday night, mostly sunny Friday AM, then partly cloudy Friday afternoon and Friday night, then mostly sunny Saturday free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Wednesday and Wednesday night, 14,000 ft. Thursday through Friday, then 13,000 ft. Friday night and Saturday highs 76-70 lows 47-42 warming back to 47 Friday 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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