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This is Winter Weather Safety and Awareness Week and the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Portland website has tips for you to keep safe during the upcoming Winter season. Just go to: WINTER AWARENESS WEEK.
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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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Here are your preliminary Saturday College Football Forecasts:
Ducks vs Colorado at Autzen Stadium 12:00 PM – Cloudy with a 50% chance of rain at kickoff increasing to rain (80% chance) as the game progresses, temperature 53 warming to 58 by games end, wind: Light.
Bravers at Washington CenturyLink Field Seattle, Washington 7:15 PM – Mostly cloudy with rain at times, then rain likely (60%) by the end of the game, temperature hovering near 5, 2wind: S 10 becoming Light.
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A high pressure ridge (“Arch” shape offshore) dried us out a bit today, but it will move through and low pressure returns for more rain chances Friday through the weekend. A frontal system will ride slowly into Oregon with the warm front first then later the cold front bringing increasing chances of rain for the weekend into next week.
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Partly cloudy this evening, mostly cloudy late tonight, mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Friday (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), a (30%) chance of rain Friday night (under 0.10 in. of rain possible) and Saturday AM, rain likely (60%) Saturday afternoon (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), then showers likely (70%) late Saturday night (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Sunday, rain likely (60%) Sunday night lows 40-52 highs 59-67. Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Monday through Tuesday, rain Tuesday night through Wednesday night, then mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of showers Thursday highs 69-59 lows 50-44. (seasonal averages high 62 low 43)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Partly cloudy this evening, mostly cloudy tonight, mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Friday (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), cloudy with a (30%) chance of rain Friday night (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Saturday AM, rain likely (70%) in the afternoon (0.15 in. of rain possible), coastal rain likely (70%) with evening rain likely (70%) inland and a good (50%) chance of rain Saturday night (0.10 in. of rain possible), cloudy with rain likely (70%) Sunday and Sunday night lows 45-55 highs 58-62. Mostly cloudy with rain Monday through Wednesday night, then mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of showers Thursday highs 62-56 lows 53-50. (seasonal averages high 59 low 45)
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Partly cloudy this evening, mostly cloudy tonight, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Friday (under 0.10 in. of rain possible), mostly cloudy with (30%) chance of rain in the evening, a slight (20%) chance of rain late Friday night, cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Saturday AM, then rain likely (60%) Saturday night through Sunday with rain Sunday night free air freezing level 6,000 ft. tonight, snow level 7,000 ft. Friday, then above 8,000 ft. Friday night through Sunday night lows 32-40 highs 42-49. Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Monday through Tuesday, rain Tuesday night, mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Wednesday, rain and snow likely (60%) Wednesday night, then mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain and snow Thursday snow level above 8,000 ft. Monday through Tuesday, 7,500 ft. Tuesday night, 6,000 ft. Wednesday, 5,500 ft. Wednesday night, then 5,000 ft. Thursday highs 49-40 lows 39-33.
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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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