We'll probably all have to start doing the rain dance here pretty soon. Unfortunately, this dry pattern is now expected to continue to around the middle of the month. Look at the GIF image and you'll see that this model predicts anomalous high pressure (reddish colors) through the middle of the month. Most other data […]
Enjoy the rain? We got 0.29" of total rainfall Wednesday & Thursday. Dry weather returns today (Friday) with noticeably warmer temperatures. In fact, summer-like high temps (80's) will return on Saturday and will continue into much of next week. Lows mid-upper 40's. Light breezes. Dry weather is expected through all of next week and probably […]
Light rain will develop early tomorrow morning (Wednesday) and change to showers around late morning, continuing through the afternoon. Isolated showers will then occur Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. Total rainfall up to around 1/4". Mainly light breezes at 10 mph or less. It will also be cooler Wed/Thur. An extended period of dry weather […]
Want rain? Other than isolated to possibly light scattered showers on Wednesday into Thursday morning, dry weather will prevail through next weekend. Warm/Hot today and Monday, then a nice cooling trend. Winds will vary in direction through Tuesday which will allow smoke to get into our area from the Cedar Creek Fire. Air quality will […]
Autumnal Equinox occurs today (Thursday) at 6:04pm. Sunset today is at 7:13pm, sunrise tomorrow is at 7:00am. The storm system is now east of us and dry weather will be the case into early next week with night/morning fog or even some low clouds. This system's rainfall also reduced the fire danger to low-moderate across […]
**AUTUMNAL EUINOX OCCURS THURSDAY AT 6:04pm*** As of 9:00am today (Wednesday), 0.14" of rain has fallen in Cottage Grove. Up to another 1/10" of rainfall is possible through tonight. Check out the map, notice the impressive rainfall totals from about Roseburg south. North of Eugene has been dry so far. This storm system will be […]
Monday Weather Update: Other than some sprinkles, no rain fell in Cottage Grove over the weekend. However, rain did fall over the Cascades. Scroll down and check out the map of rain totals - about 1/2" of rainfall was observed near the Cedar Creek Fire (east of Oakridge). While not nearly enough to put out […]
*UPDATED SATURDAY 11:00am* The "cut-off" low pressure system (cut-off from the jet stream) is trekking south offshore, as predicted, and will get stuck and hang around just offshore of northern California through Wednesday. Although unlikely, can't rule out sprinkles or a brief light shower through this evening before shower chances increase tonight. Tonight-Sunday morning: A […]
Lots of new people here in the group so I'll give a brief introduction of myself. I'm a Meteorologist with a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology (2002) and Master's in Atmospheric Science (2005). I work out of my home office, here in Cottage Grove, and mostly do agricultural weather forecasting (which is very challenging). My wife […]
Enjoying the cool crisp mornings? Interesting weather pattern coming up for Friday through Sunday. To rain or not to rain is the difficult question to answer. This is because the low pressure system that will approach Oregon early Friday is going to be cut-off from the jet stream (in meteorology, we call this a "cut-off […]
