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Check out my latest Eugene Daily News Weather Or Not Column “Water, Water, Every Where, Nor Any Drop To Drink.”

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And don’t forget my latest feature story in the continuing series on service club organizations called Who Are The Soroptimists And What Are They Doing?

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No winner/ Here is my weekly weather quiz question for the last time. What is an “Environmental Temperature Sounding?” Here is the correct answer. An Environmental Temperature Sounding is an instantaneous or near-instantaneous sounding of temperature as a function of height. This sounding or vertical profile is usually obtained by a balloon-borne instrument, but can also be measured using remote sensing equipment. I’ll have a new weekly weather quiz queston 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 ridge of high pressure (“Arch” shape in blue arrows) is sitting east of us and will keep the sunshine and warmer temperatures with us into next week. Then low pressure will start to influence our weather along with a frontal system that looks like it will be preparing to visit the Pacific Northwest to start cooling us off by the end of next week. The Perseid Meteor shower has begun. It will continue and peak on the night of August 12.

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Advisories:

• A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MONDAY UNTIL 2 AM TUESDAY FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING WITH DRY FUELS FOR FIRE FOR: THE WESTERN KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST, THE UMPQUA NATIONAL FOREST, THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS, THE EASTERN ROGUE VALLEY, THE SOUTHERN OREGON CASCADES, THE KLAMATH BASIN AND THE FREMONT-WINEMA FOREST, AND THE SOUTH CENTRAL  OREGON DESERT INCLUDING THE BLM LAND IN EASTERN LAKE AND WESTERN HARNEY COUNTIES.
• A HEALTH ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE PRESENCE OF BLUE-GREEN ALGAE AT DEVILS LAKE IN LINCOLN COUNTY. HIGH LEVELS OF CYANOTOXIN HAVE ALSO BEEN FOUND IN ODEL LAKE IN KLAMATH COUNTY RESULTING IN A HEALTH ADVISORY BEING ISSUED THERE ALSO. THE TOXIC ALGAE BLOOM MEANS THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE AFFECTED WATER AND THAT ALSO GOES FOR ANY PETS.

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Air Quality Index:

Eugene-Springfield: The Air Quality Index is 33 in the Good category measuring Particulate Matter at Springfield City Hall. Data courtesy of Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA)

Oakridge: The Air Quality Index is 39 in the Good category measuring Particulate Matter at Willamette Activity Center, Oakridge. Data courtesy of Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA)

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Eugene-Springfield Pollen Count:

Grass………. Moderate (8)

Trees………. Low (4)

Last Counted: 8/1/14

Data Courtesy of Oregon Allergy Associates

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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis:

• Mostly clear tonight,
• Mostly sunny Monday, mostly clear at night,
• Partly cloudy in the AM, mostly sunny in the afternoon, mostly clear at night both Tuesday and Wednesday,
• lows near 56 highs 90-84.
• Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, mostly clear each night.
• highs near 84 lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 84 low 52)

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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including Roseburg:

• Partly cloudy with areas of smoke this evening, partly cloudy tonight,
• Partly cloudy Monday AM, sunny in the afternoon, partly cloudy at night,
• Partly cloudy Tuesday AM, sunny and a bit cooler in the afternoon, mostly clear Tuesday night,
• Mostly sunny Wednesday, then mostly clear at night.
• lows 60-57 highs 90-86 warming to 88 Wednesday.
• Mostly sunny Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, mostly clear each night.
• highs 89-86 lows near 58. (seasonal averages high 86 low 57)

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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend:

• Partly cloudy this evening, mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog late tonight,
• Mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog in the AM, partly cloudy Monday afternoon and evening, mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog late Monday night,
• Mostly cloudy with patchy coastal AM fog, sunny Tuesday afternoon, mostly cloudy with patchy coastal fog late Tuesday night,
• Mostly cloudy with patchy AM coastal fog, sunny Wednesday afternoon, then partly cloudy Wednesday night.
• lows near 55 highs near 64.
• Partly  cloudy Thursday through Sunday.
• highs 65-63 lows near 55. (seasonal averages high 65 low 53)

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Forecast for the Cascades in Lane County:

• Areas of smoke this evening otherwise partly cloudy tonight,
• Partly cloudy with a slight (20%) chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday afternoon and at night,
• Partly cloudy Tuesday and Tuesday night,
• Mostly sunny Wednesday AM, partly cloudy in the afternoon, then mostly clear at night.
• free air freezing level 14,000 ft. tonight, snow level above 8,000 ft. Monday and Monday night, free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Tuesday through Wednesday night.
• lows near 59-49 highs 80-75.
• Mostly sunny days with mostly clear nights Thursday through Sunday.
• free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Thursday through Friday night, 13,000 ft. Saturday, then 14,000 ft. Saturday night and Sunday.
• highs near 74 lows near 49.

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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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