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 […]
The past Friday-Saturday easterly wind event that brought smoke and ash into our area is now behind us. Smoke is gradually mixing out of our area and air quality slowly improving (now in the "moderate" category as of the time of this writing, after venturing into the "very hazardous" level on Saturday). Scroll below to […]
Wind Event Update (8:30am Friday): Strongest winds are expected NORTH of Lane County where 50-55 mph gusts will be common near the Cascade ridges. Here in Lane County, winds near the crests can gust up to 40-45 mph. This is NOT as strong of an event as 2020. Timing: Strongest winds will be from 2:00pm […]
12:00pm Thursday: Concerned about the Fri/Sat wind event? Let's put things into perspective. No need to panic. This wind event is NOT as strong as the one that occurred in 2020. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for all of Oregon from the Cascades WEST to the coast for just a 36-hour […]
