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Check out my latest EDN Weather Or Not Column “It Just Doesn’t Matter”
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An upper air high pressure ridge (shaded “Arch” shape with blue arrows) is taking over as our weather maker. This week is looking dry, bright, and quite a bit warmer as the high pressure keeps any serous storms away. A frontal system will push into the Pacific Northwest mainly to our north Sunday, but again it looks weak and will fall apart so we’ll only see at most a few clouds but no precipitation from it.
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The Grass Pollen Count has gone through the roof and is listed at Very High according to Oregon Allergy Associates.
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Advisories: NONE AT THIS TIME.
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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis: Mostly sunny today, clear tonight, mostly sunny Wednesday, mostly clear at night, partly cloudy Thursday AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, then partly cloudy Thursday night highs 83-78 lows near 50. Partly cloudy in the AMs, mostly sunny Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with mostly clear skies at night highs 80-82 cooling to 75 Monday lows 50-46. (seasonal averages high 70 low 46)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg: Sunny today and Wednesday with mostly clear skies at night, then partly cloudy Thursday and Thursday night highs 87-89 cooling to 82 lows 50-57 cooling to 53 Thursday night. Mostly cloudy Thursday AM, partly cloudy in the afternoon through Friday night, then mostly sunny Saturday and Sunday with mostly clear skies at night, then mostly cloudy Monday highs near 86-89 cooling to 80 Monday lows 56-50. (seasonal averages high 73 low 50)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Sunny and warmer today, partly cloudy this evening and mostly cloudy with patchy fog late tonight at the shore while mostly clear inland, cloudy with patchy coastal fog late at night and Wednesday AM, partly cloudy at the shore Wednesday afternoon while sunny in the AM inland and partly cloudy in the afternoon, mostly cloudy at night at the shore while mostly clear inland in the evening and mostly cloudy Wednesday night, mostly cloudy Thursday then partly cloudy Thursday night highs near 65-60 lows near 52. Mostly sunny Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with mostly clear skies at night, then mostly cloudy Monday highs 66-62 lows near 54-48. (seasonal averages high 61 low 49)
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Sunny today, clear tonight, mostly sunny Wednesday and Thursday with mostly clear skies tonight and Wednesday night while partly cloudy skies Thursday night free air freezing level 13,000 ft. today, then 14,000 ft. tonight through Thursday night highs 74-70 lows 46-48. Mostly sunny Friday through Monday with mostly clear skies at night free air freezing level 15,000 ft. Friday and Friday night, 16,000 ft. Saturday, 16,000 ft. falling to 15,000 ft. Saturday night, 15,000 ft.Saturday night and Sunday, then 14,000 ft. Sunday night and Monday highs 66-75 cooling to 65 Monday lows 52-47.
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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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