Cameron Landfield

Good Morning. Today, we start the morning off with a prominent marine layer stretching across the entire Coast and beginning to move inland. Expect low visibility along the Coastal communities for at least the first half of the day. The atmosphere is currently defined by two important features. The first is a prominent ridge over the Ocean to our West and the second is a trough to our North. Today, the influence from the ridge begins to wain as the trough starts to impart more forces into the region. So, a cooling trend starts today. We are looking at mid to high 80's inland with 65 along the Coast. Everywhere except for the Coast will be sunny all day with no prominent winds. The cooling trend is set to continue into the weekend with Saturday possibly only making it into the 70's.

Good Morning. This week's weather is being driven by two primary elements. To our West, we have a deep low extending from Alaska while to our East, a region of high pressure is building and moving West. Today, our conditions will mostly be powered by the high pressure ridging. So, most areas today will be completely sunny with light winds and rising temps. Inland, we are looking at the high 80's today with mid 60's along the Coast. The second feature, the Alaskan low, will be pushing winds in from the Southwest along the mid and upper level atmosphere. This will provide a lifting mechanism and moisture to the Mountains. These characteristics are conducive to thunderstorm development, so the Lane County Cascades are likely to see thunder cells develop starting this afternoon and lasting through Friday. Of course this is bad news for fire weather as the possibility for dry lightning is high.

Good Morning. The same features that drove yesterday's weather remain in control for today. This morning, however, we are looking at a marine layer push along the Coast with low visibility being a likely possibility. High pressure is influencing the PNW from the East and will result in warmer afternoon temperatures. We will make it into the low 90's inland while the Coast stays in the mid 60's. Low pressure from Alaska is still directing upper level winds from the South which will continue to generate convective instability violence along and East of the Cascades. So, dry lightning danger is still high for today with many sections of Lane, Linn, and Douglas County now joining the NWS Fire Weather Watch while most of the Southern Cascades are now officially in a Red Flag Warning. As of 4am most models are pointing to thunder and lightning activity staying far to our East for today, but keep your fingers crossed as convective activity is difficult to predict and can quickly move.

Good Morning. The day will start partially cloudy, wide spread with a marine layer push along the Coast. The morning cloud cover is remnants of convective activity from last night and will clear by noon. Low clouds and fog along the Coast will follow a similar time line. Today, the dominant force on our weather switches from ridging to our East to troughing from the West. With cooler influence starting to take over, a cooling trend will begin and today's temps will fall by about 2 degrees. Sunshine will last until the early afternoon until convective activity restarts to our East and is enhanced by energy embedded in the dominant trough. This will kick off another round of thunder storms and showers along the Cascades and Foothills. Today, the orientation of our weather makers will allow for the highest chance of thunderstorms making it to the Valley that we will see for the whole week.

Good Afternoon. The primary driver of today's weather will remain the low pressure rotation descending from Alaska. This feature continues to push moist Southerly winds into the area for today and now contains an embedded shortwave. This shortwave is enhancing the already strong convection over the Cascades. As a result, this afternoon's Cascade lightning event is even stronger than yesterday's. The good news is that many of these thunderstorms are moist and this week's barrage of showers in the area will lead to less instances of dry lightning. In fact, as of today, most of the Southern Cascades are in a flash flood warning. Cascade thunder will begin to die out as the sun starts to set and the area begins to cool. As we move into the evening, cloud cover will develop over the Valley and the Coast and lead to a cloudy sky for Friday morning. A slight push of higher pressure from the South will bring sunny skies by the late morning widespread. Temps will hit about 90 for the Inland areas on Friday while the Coast makes a push at the mid 60's. Still under enhanced instability for Friday, the Mountains are likely to see another round of pop up showers in the afternoon, but lightning won't be as likely. Moving into the weekend, temps will be falling with Saturday in the mid 80's. A shortwave once again approaches the PNW on Sunday and will bring cloudier conditions with temps slamming down into the high 70's to low 80's with more excitement starting back up over the Mountains.

Good Afternoon. Today has very similar forces at play to yesterday, so the resulting conditions have also been similar. We are once again picking up thunder and showers over the Cascades, especially East of Lane County. These thundershowers will follow a similar projection to Thursday's event. With that said, the excitement should be over by 9pm. Some cloud cover will drift into Lane and Douglas County through the rest of the evening as remnants of the thunderstorms move by. Into the weekend, the main low that has been to our West all week will move Southward and allow for a few more shortwaves to begin to enter the PNW. This will play out with Saturday looking similar to today with temps dropping by about 5 degrees. Sunday, the entire region will be mostly cloudy for the entire day as the first short wave pushes in. This will also drop Sunday's maximum temperature to just under 80 degrees. This shortwave will likely restart shower development over the Cascades. Due to less heat, these showers are less likely to contain thunder. Moving into next week, general troughing will allow temps to slowly rise to just below average with mostly sunny conditions. There are some indicators of potential rainfall somewhere around midweek, but its far too early to be confident.

Good Morning. This week, we start things off looking directly at a small wave of low pressure that will push showers into the region through mid week. The first hit