SATURDAY: Turn clocks BACK one hour tonight before bed (DST officially ends 2:00am Sunday). Sunset tonight 6:00pm, sunrise Sunday 6:53am, sunset Sunday 4:59pm. Periods of rain/showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue through Tuesday with a brief break in the rainfall tonight. Total combined rainfall through Tuesday 1-1.50". Snow levels above 6000' through Sunday, then 5000' […]
A series of four moderate strength low pressure systems will affect the region through Monday. Click here to see current weather conditions at KNND's weather station downtown
Tonight's the last night of freezing/near freezing low temps. It will stay dry through Halloween! In fact, a little warmer in the evening than what we've been seeing thanks to some cloud cover. Temperatures at sunset on Tuesday will be in the middle 50's and somewhere around 47-49 at 9:00pm. Very light breezes. Since 1892, […]
Saturday: Low temperatures this morning varied at 26° in some of the outskirt areas to 32° at KNND in downtown Cottage Grove. About one to three degrees warmer tonight with further warming Monday night. Anomalous and strong high pressure across the western U.S. will keep us dry through Halloween (see the map below). It then […]
Get ready for cold air moving in - frost and freezing morning low temperatures ahead! As of 1:00pm Tuesday, looks like on either side of 1/2" of rain will fall this evening to before sunrise on Wednesday. Expect isolated to scattered showers for the rest of Wednesday (maybe a rumble of thunder?). Isolated light showers […]
SUNDAY WEATHER UPDATE: Much colder beginning the middle of the week; first frost of the season likely Thursday morning. Freezing lows probable Friday night through next weekend. Lowest snow levels of the season so far Tuesday onward. Halloween looks dry right now (small chance this may change); it'll also be cold during Trick-or-Treat time. Coldest […]
Coldest air of the season is likely to arrive during the middle and end of next week! Looking out to Halloween (preliminarily): temps look to be right around normal for the highs and lows will be a few degrees above normal and there's better odds for some rain. Until then, a storm will bring about […]
Friday Oct 13: Annular Eclipse tomorrow (Saturday) - see last paragraph for details. A little less than predicted rainfall fell in Cottage Grove with the storms earlier this week. Total rainfall across the area from these storms ranged from 0.80" at KNND to 1.80" near Cottage Grove Lake. Today through Tuesday morning, a couple of […]
Monday: Storm #1 will affect the area today with 0.20-0.35" of rainfall, winds 15 mph or less. Medium strength Storm #2 moves in early Tuesday morning with solid moderate to heavy at times rain developing after 3:00am (probably closer to 5am-ish). Winds on Tuesday could gust to 25 or 30 mph at times. Total rainfall […]
The Annular Eclipse is next Saturday Oct 14 (totality here starts at about 9:15am and lasts approx 4min 10sec). At this time it's looking like cloudy skies but stay tuned for more updates since this could change. Here's some good information of the eclipse times:
