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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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A high pressure ridge (“Arch shape with blue arrows ”) has brought back the sunshine and warmed us up. The big problem is the smoke that is being pushed at us from the East. A surface thermal trough of low pressure (induced by the warm temperatures) pushed eastward cooling us a bit and it will shove the smoke to the East away from us. A upper level trough of low pressure (“U” shape shaded and in blue arrows) moved out of the Gulf of Alaska, along with the ridge will push a weak cold front through between Saturday and Sunday, but will only bring us a few more clouds and cooler temperatures. It will warm up again next week as high pressure moves in and strengthens.
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Clear tonight, patchy fog Saturday AM, sunny in the afternoon, clear Saturday night, sunny Sunday, clear Sunday night, mostly sunny Monday, then mostly clear Monday night lows 53-50 warming to 54 Monday night highs 87-92. Sunny Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night, mostly sunny Wednesday and Thursday with mostly clear nights, then sunny Friday highs 90-80 lows near 50. (seasonal averages high 79 low 52)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Clear inland while mostly cloudy at the shore, areas of fog late tonight, sunny with patchy AM fog inland while cloudy with areas of coastal patchy fog at the beaches Saturday AM, sunny and a bit warmer in the afternoon, partly cloudy with patchy fog late Saturday night, cloudy with patchy fog Sunday AM, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear inland while mostly cloudy Sunday night at the beaches, patchy AM fog, sunny Monday, then clear with patchy fog late Monday night lows 52-47 warming to 50 Monday night highs 64-62. Patchy AM fog, sunny Tuesday afternoon, mostly clear with patchy fog late at night and Wednesday AM, mostly sunny Wednesday, mostly clear at night, partly cloudy with patchy fog Thursday through Friday highs near 62 lows near 50. (seasonal averages high 65 low 50).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Partly cloudy with areas of hazy smoke tonight, mostly sunny with patchy smoke again Saturday, patchy smoke in the evening, mostly clear Saturday night, mostly sunny a bit cooler Sunday, mostly clear Sunday night, sunny and a bit warmer Monday, then clear Monday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. tonight through Sunday night, then 14,000 ft. Monday and Monday night lows 47-42 rising to 46 Monday night highs 70-67 warming to 72 Monday. Sunny Tuesday through Friday with clear skies at night free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Tuesday and Tuesday night, 15,000 ft. Wednesday, 14,000 ft. Wednesday night and Thursday, then 15,000 ft. Thursday night and Friday highs 72-66 lows 47-43.
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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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