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October 13, 2022

Note: Weather is a constantly changing phenomenon and weather forecasting is a combination of science, experience, and intuition. The accuracy of any given forecast can chance due to unexpected changes in atmospheric conditions, so there are no guarantees the the actual weather will conform to the projected forecast.

ADVISORIES

  • AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY FOR WILDFIRE SMOKE IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY, THE GREATER PORTLAND METRO AREA, THE CASCADE FOOTHILLS IN LANE COUNTY, AND THE CASCADES IN LANE COUNTY.
  • AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY FOR WILDFIRE SMOKE IS IN EFFECT THROUGH MIDNIGHT FRIDAY FOR DOUGLAS AND KLAMATH COUNTIES.

HEALTH ADVISORIES

  • A RECREATIONAL HEALTH ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WILLOW CREEK RESERVOIR IN MORROW COUNTY DUE THE PRESENCE OF A CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE) BLOOM AND CYANOTOXINS ABOVE RECREATIONAL USE VALUES FOR HUMAN EXPOSURE. PEOPLE SHOULD AVOID SWIMMING AND HIGH-SPEED WATER ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS WATER SKIING OR POWER BOATING, IN AREAS OF THE LAKE WHERE BLOOMS ARE, AS THE MAJOR RISK OF EXPOSURE IS FROM INGESTING WATER. THESE TOXINS ARE NOT ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE SKIN SENSITIVITIES  YOU MAY GET A PUFFY RED RASH. IT CAN BE HARMFUL TO PETS AND PEOPLE IF ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OCCURS. SPECIAL CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER ONES, WHEN THEY ARE NEAR THE WATER.
  • PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORIES THAT WERE ISSUED FOR UNSAFE LEVELS OF FECAL BACTERIA IN OCEAN WATERS AT ROCKAWAY BEACH IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY AND IN OCEAN WATERS AT SHORT SAND BEACH IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY HAVE BEEN LIFTED.
  • A RECREATIONAL HEALTH ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF UPPER KLAMATH LAKE IN KLAMATH COUNTY INCLUDING SHOALWATER BAY DUE THE PRESENCE OF A CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE) BLOOM AND CYANOTOXINS ABOVE RECREATIONAL USE VALUES FOR HUMAN EXPOSURE. PEOPLE SHOULD AVOID SWIMMING AND HIGH-SPEED WATER ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS WATER SKIING OR POWER BOATING, IN AREAS OF THE LAKE WHERE BLOOMS ARE, AS THE MAJOR RISK OF EXPOSURE IS FROM INGESTING WATER. THESE TOXINS ARE NOT ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE SKIN SENSITIVITIES  YOU MAY GET A PUFFY RED RASH. IT CAN BE HARMFUL TO PETS AND PEOPLE IF ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OCCURS. SPECIAL CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER ONES, WHEN THEY ARE NEAR THE WATER.
  • NOTE: THE RECREATIONAL HEALTH ADVISORY ISSUED FOR THE WILLAMETTE RIVER NEAR CATHEDRAL PARK IN NORTH PORTLAND  AND UPSTREAM (SOUTH) TO THE WILLAMETTE COVE AREA NEAR THE SP&S RAILROAD BRIDGE DUE THE PRESENCE OF A CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE) BLOOM AND CYANOTOXINS HAS BEEN LIFTED. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH SIGNS OF BLOOM, EXPOSURES, AND SYMPTOMS BY VISITING OHA’S CYANOBACTERIA HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOM WEBSITE AT:  http://www.healthoregon.org/hab.
  • A PERMANENT RECREATIONAL HEALTH ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH UMPQUA RIVER AND MAINSTEM UMPQUA RIVER. THE ADVISORY COVERS THE SOUTH UMPQUA RIVER FROM CANYONVILLE DOWNSTREAM TO THE CONFLUENCE OF THE MAINSTEM UMPQUA RIVER, AND THE MAINSTEM UMPQUA RIVER DOWNSTREAM PAST ELKTON TO LAWSON BAR. PEOPLE IN THE BEDROCK ALONG THE RIVERS EDGE ARE ARE KNOWN TO DEVELOP CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE) BLOOMS THAT CAN BE HARMFUL TO PETS AND PEOPLE IF ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OCCURS. SIGNS HAVE BEEN POSTED AT SEVERAL ACCESS AREAS ALONG THE RIVER.

THE WEATHER PATTERN

  • An Upper Level High Pressure Ridge (“Arch” shape) continues giving us above normal temperatures. The graphics for days 1-3 show no frontal systems near Oregon. The graphics for days 3-7  Sunday through Thursday show no frontal systems approaching the Pacific Northwest until a cold front positions itself offshore to our northwest early Monday to push through and fall apart by late in the day into Tuesday. Then a front will be just offshore next Thursday.

Forecast for the South Willamette Valley including Eugene-Springfield:

  • Mostly sunny and a bit warmer today, mostly clear tonight,
  • Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Friday, mostly clear at night,
  • Mostly sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, then clear Saturday night.
  • highs 82-80 warming to 83 Saturday lows 44-46.
  • Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Sunday, partly cloudy Sunday night,
  • A mix of clouds and sun and a bit cooler Monday, partly cloudy at night,
  • Partly cloudy Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night,
  • Some AM clouds, then mostly sunny and a bit warmer Wednesday afternoon.
  • highs 76-72 warming to 74 Wednesday lows 48. (Seasonal Averages high 66 low 42)

Forecast for the Umpqua Valley including Roseburg:

  • Sunny and hazy today, clear and hazy tonight,
  • AM haze, sunny and a bit cooler Friday afternoon, clear at night,
  • Sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, then clear Saturday night.
  • highs 84-82 warming to 85 Saturday lows 47-52.
  • Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Sunday, mostly clear Sunday night,
  • AM clouds and patchy fog, partly cloudy and a bit cooler Monday afternoon, partly cloudy at night,
  • Partly cloudy and a bit warmer Tuesday, mostly clear Tuesday night,
  • Then mostly sunny and a bit warmer Wednesday.
  • highs 79-72 warming back to 79 Wednesday lows 53-50. (Seasonal Averages high 68 low 46).

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

  • Mostly cloudy with areas of AM coastal fog and sunny and a bit warmer this afternoon while sunny and hazy inland today, mostly clear with patchy evening coastal fog, hazy with areas of fog late tonight,
  • AM coastal have with areas of fog while inland AM haze, mostly sunny and a bit warmer Friday afternoon, mostly clear at night,
  • Sunny Saturday, then partly cloudy Saturday night.
  • highs 73-75 cooling to 74 Saturday lows near 53.
  • Partly cloudy and a bit cooler Sunday, mostly cloudy with patchy fog late Sunday night,
  • Mostly cloudy with patchy fog and a bit cooler Monday, mostly cloudy at night,
  • Mostly cloudy and a bit warmer Tuesday, mostly cloudy Tuesday night,
  • Some AM clouds, then sunny and a bit warmer Wednesday afternoon.
  • highs 70-73 lows near 52. (Seasonal Averages high 63 low 47)

Forecast for the Northern Oregon Cascades including Willamette Pass:

  • Sunny and hazy and a bit warmer and smoky today, then clear and hazy with smoke tonight,
  • Then mostly sunny and hazy and smoky and a bit cooler Friday and Saturday, then mostly clear and hazy and smoky both nights.
  • free air freezing level 15,000 ft. today through Saturday, then 14,000 ft. Saturday night.
  •  highs 74-72 lows near 43.
  • Mostly sunny hazy and smoky and a bit cooler Sunday, partly cloudy Sunday night,
  • Partly cloudy and a bit cooler Monday, partly cloudy at night,
  • Some AM clouds, mostly sunny  Tuesday afternoon, mostly clear Tuesday night,
  • Then mostly sunny and a bit warmer Wednesday.
  • free air freezing level 14,000 ft. Sunday, 13,000 ft. Sunday night, 12,000 ft. Monday through Tuesday, then 13,000 ft. Tuesday night and Wednesday.
  • highs 70-64 warming to 67 Wednesday lows 42-39 warming back to 42 Tuesday night.
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8/ 22 Plenty of sunshine, but cooler to start your workweek today.

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Mostly clear again tonight, then sunshine and slightly cooler for your Friday.

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

  • Becoming mostly cloudy late tonight,
  • Some AM clouds, sunny and a bit warmer Friday afternoon, clear in the evening, partly cloudy late Friday night,
  • Mostly cloudy start, partly cloudy and slightly cooler Saturday afternoon, mostly clear at night,
  • Mostly sunny Sunday, then mostly clear Sunday night.
  • lows 54-56 cooling back to 54 Sunday night highs 70-69.
  • Mostly sunny and a bit warmer Monday, mostly clear Monday night,
  • Partly cloudy and slightly cooler Tuesday, partly cloudy at night,
  • Then partly cloudy Wednesday through Thursday.
  • highs 73-72 lows 54-56 cooling back to 54 Wednesday night. (Seasonal Averages high 66 low 54)

Forecast for the Northern Oregon Cascades including Willamette Pass:

  • Mostly clear tonight,
  • Mostly sunny and a bit cooler Friday, clear Friday night,
  • Sunny and a bit warmer Saturday, mostly clear at night,
  • Some AM clouds, mostly sunny and a bit cooler Sunday, then clear Sunday night.
  • free air freezing level 15,000 ft. falling to 14,000 ft. late tonight, 14,000 ft. rising to 15,000 ft. Friday afternoon, 15,000 ft. Friday night through Sunday, then 16,000 ft. Sunday night.
  • lows 49-47 highs 74-72 warming back to 74 Sunday.
  • Sunny and a bit warmer Monday, clear Monday night,
  • Sunny Tuesday, mostly clear at night,
  • Then mostly sunny and a bit cooler Wednesday and Thursday, mostly clear Wednesday night.
  • free air freezing level 16,000 ft. Monday through Thursday.
  • highs 80-75 lows 53-50.