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Here is my weekly weather quiz question. It’s a day late because of the Labor Day Holiday Monday. There are six different kinds of radar images. What are they? (Name as many as you can.) 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 away from Oregon. A high pressure ridge (“Arch” shape in blue arrows offshore) will warm us up a bit this week just in time for the kids to go back to school. A more serious cold front will move through the Pacific Northwest by Monday giving us a slight chance of rain Monday.
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Sunny today, Wednesday, and Thursday with clear nights highs near 85-88 lows 51-54. Mostly sunny Friday, mostly clear at night, sunny Saturday afternoon, clear Saturday night, mostly cloudy Sunday, mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of drizzle late Sunday night and Monday AM, then a slight (20%) chance of rain Monday afternoon highs 87-72 lows 53-50. (seasonal averages high 82 low 53)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly cloudy with patchy coastal and inland fog this AM, sunny this afternoon, mostly clear tonight, mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog Wednesday AM, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear with patchy coastal fog late Wednesday night and Thursday AM, mostly cloudy with patchy AM fog Thursday, mostly sunny Thursday afternoon, clear in the evening, then partly cloudy with patchy fog late Thursday night highs 64-58 lows near 50. Mostly cloudy with patchy fog Friday AM, partly cloudy Friday afternoon, partly cloudy with patchy fog late Friday night and Saturday AM, mostly cloudy Saturday through Sunday with patchy fog, mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of drizzle late Sunday night and Monday AM, then a slight (20%) chance of rain Monday afternoon highs near 64 lows 50-48. (seasonal averages high 66 low 52).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Sunny today and Wednesday with mostly clear nights, mostly sunny Thursday, partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly clear Thursday night free air freezing level 14,000 ft. today, 15,000 ft. tonight and Wednesday, then 14,000 ft. Wednesday through Thursday night highs 74-77 cooling to near 72 Thursday lows 46-43. Mostly sunny Friday and Saturday with mostly clear skies Friday night and Saturday night, mostly cloudy Sunday and Sunday night, then mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of showers Monday free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Friday and Friday night, 13,000 ft. Saturday and Saturday night, 12,000 ft. Sunday and Sunday night, then snow level above 8,000 ft. Monday highs 72-64 lows 44-40.
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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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