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Sorry, no winner this week. Here’s my weekly weather quiz question for the last time. What are “GOES” and what do they do? Here is the correct answer. The Geostationary Satellite system (GOES), which has satellites that match the speed of the rotation of the Earth so they can stay in one place looking down at specific areas of the planet, are operated by the United States National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and support weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorology research. Spacecraft and ground-based elements of the system work together to provide a continuous stream of environmental data. The National Weather Service (NWS) uses the GOES system for its United States weather monitoring and forecasting operations, and scientific researchers use the data to better understand land, atmosphere, ocean, and climate interactions. The GOES system uses geosynchronous satellites which—since the launch of SMS-1 in 1974—have been a basic element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecasting. I’ll have a new weekly weather quiz question for you starting on 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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A surface thermal trough of low pressure (L with dashed line through it) pushed eastward and is cooling us a bit today and it’s shoving the smoke back to the East away from us. A weak trough of low pressure (small “U” shape over Vancouver Island) will slide over us today and Sunday helping with the short-lived cooling. A high pressure ridge (in the Gulf of Alaska) will move southward and cover us with sunshine and continued warm temperatures next week.
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Patchy fog this AM, sunny and cooler this afternoon, clear tonight, sunny and warmer Sunday, clear Sunday night, mostly sunny and even warmer Monday, then mostly clear Monday night highs 87-92 lows 52-50 warming to 54 Monday night. Sunny and slightly cooler Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night, mostly sunny with slow cooling 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: Cloudy with patchy AM fog this AM, sunny and a bit warmer this afternoon, partly cloudy with patchy fog late tonight, 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 highs 64-62 lows 50-47 warming back to 50 Monday night. Patchy AM fog, sunny Tuesday afternoon, mostly clear with patchy fog late at night and Wednesday AM, mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon, mostly clear at night, partly cloudy with AM and late night 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: Mostly sunny with areas of patchy smoke again today, partly cloudy with patchy smoke this evening, mostly clear late tonight, mostly sunny Sunday, mostly clear Sunday night, sunny and a bit warmer Monday, then clear Monday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. today through Sunday night, then 14,000 ft. Monday and Monday night highs 70-76 lows 43-46. Sunny and a bit cooler 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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