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Congratulations Big Daddy Chris you are the winner. Here is my weather quiz question for the last time. What is the free air freezing level? Here is your answer: Isn’t the free air freezing level the altitude point where the tempurature drops to freezing? 32 f or 0 c. so if you live above that level you can expect it to be freezing or lower. Here is and expanded answer. The free air freezing level is referring to the height at which the temperature of the atmosphere drops to 0 deg C.  The  ”free air” freezing level is meant to distinguish in complex terrain such as mountains between subfreezing air which can settle in low areas such as valleys due to temperature inversions and the actual freezing level which is aloft in the atmosphere. I’ll have another weekly weather quiz question for you starting next Monday. You’ll post your answer as a comment by clicking on “no 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.

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The upper air flow is bending more from the west and southwest bringing in warmer, but still very moist air into the Pacific Northwest.  A frontal system has brought some warmer air in, so you can forget about the freezing rain and snow for a while at least. More storms will be headed toward us like this one that will move in Saturday .

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Advisories:  NONE AT THIS TIME.

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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: Mostly cloudy with showers today (0.25 in. of  possible) and breezy (wind: S 10-20 mph), showers this evening and showers likely (60%) late tonight (0.10 in. of rain possible), rain likely (60%) Friday (0.25 in. of rain possible) and Friday night (0.10 in. of rain possible) highs 57-54 lows 46-44. Cloudy with rain likely (60%) Saturday, rain Saturday night and Sunday, rain likely (60%)  Sunday night and Monday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Monday night, rain likely (60%) Tuesday, then a (40%) chance of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday highs 52-55 cooling to near 50 Tuesday and Wednesday lows 45-39. (seasonal averages highs 46 low 33)

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Forecast for the Umpqua Basin including, Roseburg: Cloudy with rain this AM, showers this afternoon, showers this evening, rain likely (60%) with patchy fog late tonight and Friday AM, rain Friday afternoon, then cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Friday night and patchy fog late highs 56-53 lows near 45. Cloudy with rain likely (60%) Saturday AM, a good (50%) chance of afternoon rain, rain Saturday night, rain likely (60%) Sunday through Monday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), then cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Monday night and Tuesday, and  mostly cloudy with a (30%) chance of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday highs 54-58 cooling to 50 Tuesday and 47 Wednesday lows 50-39. (seasonal averages high 50 low 35)

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Forecast for the South Oregon Coast including Coos Bay and North Bend:  Cloudy with rain this AM,  showers this afternoon and windy (S 20-30 mph), showers this evening, coastal rain tonight, evening rain inland then coastal rain late tonight, rain likely (60%) inland with fog late tonight,  mostly cloudy with coastal AM rain and drizzle , AM rain and drizzle likely (60%) Friday inland, then afternoon rain, cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Friday night  then patchy fog late highs 58-55 lows 43-45. Cloudy with coastal rain likely (60%) Saturday, AM  rain likely (60%) then afternoon rain inland , rain Saturday night, rain likely (60%) Sunday through Monday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), then cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain Monday night through Tuesday night, and mostly cloudy with a (40%) chance of rain Wednesday highs 57-50 lows 50-40. (seasonal averages high 53 lows 39).

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Forecast for the Cascades of Lane County:  Mostly cloudy with rain this AM and showers this afternoon (0.50 in. of rain possible),  showers tonight (2 in. of snow possible, 0.25 in. of rain possible), rain Friday (0.25 in. of rain possible), rain likely (60%) Friday night (1 in. of snow possible, 0.10 in. of rain possible) snow level  7,000 ft. today, 6,000 ft. tonight, 6,500 ft. Friday, and 6,500 ft. Friday night highs near 40 lows near 35. Cloudy with rain Saturday through Sunday, rain likely (60%) Sunday night, rain and snow likely (60%) Monday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, mostly cloudy with a good (50%) chance of rain and snow Monday night,  rain likely (60%) Tuesday, then a good (50%) chance of rain and snow Tuesday night, and a (40%) chance  Wednesday snow level 7,000 ft. Saturday through Sunday, 6,000 ft. Sunday night, and 5,000 ft. Monday, 4,000 ft. Monday night, 6,000 ft. Tuesday, falling to 3,500 ft, Tuesday night, and 3,000 ft. Wednesday highs 40-34  lows near 33-27.

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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.