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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 it cooled 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 continue to slide over us through Sunday easing the short-lived cooling. A high pressure ridge (Shaded “Arch” shape 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: Clear tonight, sunny and warmer Sunday through Tuesday with clear nights lows 49-52 highs 87-92 cooling to 88 Tuesday. Mostly sunny and cooler Wednesday through Friday with mostly clear nights, then sunny and even cooler Saturday highs 87-82 lows near 52. (seasonal averages high 79 low 52)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly cloudy at the shore and mostly clear inland with patchy fog late tonight, mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog Sunday AM, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear inland while mostly cloudy with patchy fog Sunday night at the beaches, patchy AM fog, sunny Monday afternoon, clear with patchy fog late Monday night, partly cloudy with patchy AM coastal fog, sunny Tuesday afternoon, partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with patchy fog late Tuesday night lows 48-50 Monday night highs 60-56 warming to 60 Tuesday. Mostly cloudy with patchy AM fog, sunny Wednesday afternoon, mostly clear with patchy fog late at night and Wednesday AM, mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon, mostly clear at night, partly cloudy with patchy AM fog, sunny Thursday, then partly cloudy with patchy fog Thursday night through Saturday highs 58-65 lows 50-52. (seasonal averages high 65 low 50).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Partly cloudy with patchy smoke this evening, clear late tonight, sunny Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with mostly clear nights, then partly cloudy Tuesday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. tonight through Sunday night, then 14,000 ft. Monday through Tuesday night lows 43-46 highs 70-76 cooling to 72 Tuesday. Mostly sunny Wednesday through Saturday with clear skies at night free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Wednesday, 14,000 ft. Wednesday night and Thursday, 15,000 ft. Thursday night through Friday night, then 14,000 ft. Saturday highs 69-72 lows near 45.
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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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