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Sorry, but no winner this week. Here is my weekly weather quiz question for the last time. Can a bolt of lightning appear in any other color that white? Here is the correct answer. Yes, lightning can appear to be many different colors depending on what the light travels through to get to your eyes. In snowstorms, where is somewhat rare, pink and green are often described as colors of lightning. Haze, dust, moisture, raindrops and any other particles in the atmosphere will affect the color by absorbing or diffracting a portion of the white light of lightning. I’ll have a new weekly weather quiz question for you starting next Tuesday (instead of the usual Monday) due the the holiday. 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: NOT AT THIS TIME.
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An upper level low (“U” shape in blue arrows shaded in grey) is moving eastward across Oregon. That will keep rest of the Labor Day Holiday weekend really nice. The temperatures won’t be summer hot, but rather average for the time of the year, but it will be dry. A weak frontal system will try to move through Oregon Monday, mainly to our north, with not much effect once again. A high pressure ridge will warm us up next week just in time for the kids to go back to school.
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Clear tonight, sunny and a bit warmer Sunday, clear at night, sunny Monday (Labor Day), clear Monday night, mostly sunny Tuesday, then mostly clear Tuesday night lows 47-53 highs 82-88. Mostly sunny Wednesday through Friday with mostly clear nights, partly cloudy Saturday AM, then sunny Saturday afternoon highs 88-83 lows 54-50. (seasonal averages high 82 low 54)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly clear this evening, partly cloudy late tonight and Sunday AM with patchy coastal fog, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear Sunday night, sunny Monday (Labor Day), mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy with patchy fog Monday night and Tuesday AM, mostly sunny Tuesday afternoon, then mostly clear with patchy fog late Tuesday night lows 47-52 highs 65-63. Patchy AM fog, mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon, mostly clear at night with patchy fog late and early Thursday AM, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy with patchy fog Thursday night and Friday AM, then partly cloudy Friday afternoon through Saturday with patchy late night and early AM fog highs near 65 lows 50-53. (seasonal averages high 66 low 52).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Clear tonight, mostly sunny Sunday, clear Sunday night, sunny Monday (Labor Day), mostly clear Monday night, mostly sunny Tuesday, then clear Tuesday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. tonight, then 14,000 ft. Sunday through Tuesday night lows 36-45 highs 68-75. Sunny Wednesday, mostly clear at night, mostly sunny Thursday AM, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon and night, mostly sunny Friday AM, partly cloudy Friday afternoon and night, mostly sunny Saturday AM, then partly cloudy Saturday afternoon free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Wednesday through Friday night, then mostly sunny Saturday AM and partly cloudy Saturday afternoon highs 78-80 cooling to 72 Saturday lows 43-48 cooling to 45 Thursday 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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