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Note: Remember that you have to post your weather quiz answer as a comment on my blog in order to win. Sending your answer via Facebook or email does not count.
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We have a winner. Here again is my weekly weather quiz question. What is the wettest place in the world? An extra cheer for you if you can tell me the average rainfall there. Congratulations to our winner Dan Ross. Your correct answer was: Mount Wai-‘ale-‘ale, Kauai, one of the Hawaiian islands – the weather station there is 1569 metres high and records on average 13,000mm to 11,684mm rain per year depending on who you believe. For those of you not to handy with conversion tables that means from 511.8 inches of rain per year down to 460 inches of rain per year. I’ll have another weather quiz question for you next Monday. The first person to post the correct answer will win a week of free personalized weather forecasts tailored to your needs.
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An upper level High Pressure ridge is building up (See the “Arch” shaped area from the Gulf of Alaska to Idaho) giving us offshore flow and warming us up quite a bit today, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. A trough of low pressure will develop and move toward us next week with a cold front moving through Oregon Wednesday night and Thursday morning that will be starting to cool us back down again. There is still smoke over the Deschutes National Forest near Sisters and could slowly move toward us if and when the offshore airflow returns pushing the smoke from East to West.
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Advisories: A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON SATURDAY THROUGH 9 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF WESTERN OREGON FROM THE CASCADE FOOTHILLS WEST, EXCEPT FOR THE COAST, AND CONTINUING SOUTH TO JUST PAST COTTAGE GROVE. YOU SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL WHEN OUTDOORS TO DRINK PLENTY OF WATER, APPLY SUNSCREEN, AND COVER YOUR HEAD. THE ELDERLY AND INFANTS ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE HEAT SO CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN. MAKE SURE YOUR OUTSIDE PETS HAVE PLENTY OF COOL WATER AND A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN GET OUT OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT.
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The summer Pollen Count Forecast season for the Eugene-Springfield area is over. From Allergy and Asthma Research Group.
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Here are your detailed forecasts. **
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Forecast for the Southern and lower Mid Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield and Albany-Corvallis: Clear tonight, Saturday night, Sunday night, and Monday night, sunny and hot Saturday through Monday lows 50-53 highs 96-99. Mostly sunny and cooler Tuesday through Friday, and mostly clear at night highs from near 90 cooling to 79 lows 54-52. (seasonal averages high 82 low 51)
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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including, Roseburg: Clear tonight, sunny and hot Saturday, mostly clear Saturday night and Sunday night, sunny and hot Sunday lows 55-58 highs 96-93. Mostly sunny and hot again Monday then cooler Tuesday through Friday, and mostly clear nights highs 96-86 lows near 58-53. (seasonal averages high 87 low 55)
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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend: Mostly cloudy, patchy coastal fog this evening, fog late tonight, clear this evening inland then partly cloudy with fog late low near 50. Mostly cloudy Saturday, patchy AM coastal fog then more in the afternoon, inland the patchy fog will just occur in the AM, mostly cloudy with patchy fog late Saturday night and Sunday morning, sunny in the afternoon, then mostly clear in the evening then patchy fog late at night inland, partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy Sunday night at the shore highs 60-63 lows near 50. Partly cloudy with patchy AM fog Monday then mostly cloudy in the afternoon, partly cloudy Monday night through Thursday AM, then mostly cloudy Thursday afternoon through Friday highs 60-64 lows near 50. (seasonal averages high 68 low 53).
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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County: Clear nights from tonight through Monday night, sunny and warmer Saturday through Monday, free air freezing level 16,000 ft. lows near 50 highs 96-99. Mostly sunny and cooler Tuesday through Friday, and mostly clear nights free air freezing level 16,000 ft. lowering to 15,000 ft. Thursday through Friday highs 90-82 lows near 52.
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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.