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Check out my latest Eugene Daily News Weather Or Not Column Look, Up In The Sky It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, No It’s Something Else.
And don’t forget my latest feature story on continuing series on service club organizations
called Most Remember The Fireworks, But What Is An Active 20-30 Club?
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Sorry, no winner this week. Here is my weekly weather quiz question for the last time. What is a “Wasatch wind?” Here is the correct answer. A Wasatch Wind is a strong easterly wind blowing out of the mouths of the canyons of the Wasatch Mountains onto the plains of Utah. Also called canyon wind. I’ll have a new weekly weather quiz question for you starting 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. Good luck.
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A high pressure ridge still controls our weather and will continue to do so through the weekend. A frontal system will slide in to bring a chance of rain early next week. Another frontal system could be headed our way by late next week.
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Advisories: None at this time.
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Air Quality Index:
Eugene-Springfield: The Pollution Index is 60 in the Moderate category measuring Particulate Matter at Springfield City Hall. Data courtesy of Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA)
Oakridge: The Pollution Index is 56in the Moderate category measuring Particulate Matter at Willamette Activity Center, Oakridge. Data courtesy of Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA)
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Home Wood Heating Advisory:
Eugene/Springfield: (YELLOW) Burning Cautioned Against.
Oakridge: (Red) Burning Prohibited.
The use of Pellet stoves is always allowed.
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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis:
- Clear this evening, becoming mostly cloudy with patchy freezing fog late tonight and Sunday AM, sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear with patchy fog in the evening, areas of dense fog late Sunday night,
- Mostly cloudy with areas of AM fog Monday, cloudy at night,
- Cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Tuesday, then mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain at night.
- lows 29-43 highs 44-48.
- Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Wednesday, a (40%) chance of rain Wednesday night through Friday night,
- Then mostly cloudy with a (30%) chance of rain Saturday.
- highs 53-45 lows 39-33. (seasonal averages high 48 low 35).
Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg:
- Partly cloudy this evening, mostly clear with areas of fog again late tonight,
- Areas of AM fog, sunny Sunday afternoon, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy with areas of fog late Sunday night,
- Partly cloudy with areas of AM fog, mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of showers Monday afternoon, mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of showers at night,
- Mostly cloudy with a (30%) chance of AM rain, a (40%) chance of showers Tuesday afternoon and night.
- lows 34-46 highs 57-52 rising to 56 Tuesday.
- Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Wednesday, a (40%) chance of rain Wednesday through Friday, a (30%) chance of showers at night,
- Then mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of rain and snow showers Saturday.
- highs 53-49 lows 36-34. (seasonal averages high 50 low 37)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend:
- Mostly clear tonight,
- Sunny Sunday, mostly clear in the evening, partly cloudy with patchy fog late Sunday night,
- Partly cloudy Monday AM at the shore with a slight (20%) chance of afternoon rain while partly cloudy in the AM and mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of rain inland Monday afternoon, cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Monday night,
- Mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of showers Tuesday and Tuesday night.
- lows 40-49 highs 59-55 warming to 58 Tuesday.
- Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Wednesday, a (40%) chance of rain and colder Wednesday night,
- Cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Thursday, mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Thursday night and Friday, a (40%) chance of showers Friday night,
- Then mostly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of showers Saturday.
- highs 55-50 lows near 38. (seasonal averages high 52 low 40)
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County:
- Mostly clear tonight,
- Mostly sunny Sunday, mostly clear at night,
- Partly cloudy Monday, mostly cloudy at night,
- Cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Tuesday and Tuesday night.
- free air freezing level 10,000 ft. tonight through Sunday night, 9,000 ft. Monday and Monday night, snow level 6,500 ft. Tuesday, then above 8,000 ft. Tuesday night.
- lows 27-35 highs near 47.
- Mostly cloudy with rain likely (60%) Wednesday, a (40%) chance of rain Wednesday night,
- Mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain and snow Thursday through Friday night,
- Then mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain and snow Saturday.
- snow level 7,000 ft. Wednesday, 7,500 ft. Wednesday night, 4,500 ft. Thursday, 4,000 ft. through Friday, 3,500 ft. Friday night, then at the surface Saturday.
- highs 43-34 warming to 39 Saturday lows 32-24.
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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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