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:
Thursday October 5: Looking like we'll get a good soaking on Monday and Tuesday! Until then days will be warm! Annular Eclipse is coming up on Sat Oct 14 and it's looking dry right now so we might just have clear or partly cloudy skies. We'll talk more about the eclipse next week. Next weather […]
TODAY, October 4, 2023, at 11:20 a.m. PST, FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). The national test will consist of testing both WEA and EAS capabilities. FEMA and the FCC are coordinating with EAS participants, wireless providers, emergency […]
