The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for most of central and eastern Douglas County through 4 p.m. Sunday.
Halfway through cooking her Thanksgiving turkey, Oakland resident Debbie Hopkins’ power went out.
For at least the next couple days, get ready for an encore performance of summer weather.
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After a pleasant start to summer in the Umpqua Valley, it’s finally going to heat up, with daytime highs reaching near triple digits later this week.
A sudden burst of warm weather broke two records Tuesday and Wednesday in Roseburg.
A storm that hit Friday just days after the start of spring set a new rainfall record for Roseburg and made work tough for power crews who were stranded by mudslides while battling an outage.
Much to the delight of recreation and water managers, springlike weather in early February has been replaced by late winter storms carrying enough snow to ease some worries about a woeful snowpack in the Cascades.
Overnight snowfall covered the Umpqua Valley on Thursday morning, bringing school closures, fender benders, downed power lines and some much-needed snow in the higher elevations of Douglas County.
It was last year when the South Umpqua Basin in Southern Douglas County had 294 percent of normal snowpack.
Air quality in the inland valleys of Southern Oregon will deteriorate over the next several days, according to the National Weather Service
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It could have been early June in Roseburg Tuesday, as temperatures climbed into the low 70s.
It didn’t take long for the weather to make a quick turn from the hot, dry summer conditions, to wet and cool conditions just before the official start of fall.
Heavy rain with thunderstorms could produce flash flooding on burn scars in Douglas County, according to the National Weather Service.
It was hotter than Phoenix, Arizona.
Wednesday was the hottest Aug. 2 on record in Roseburg, but the all-time record remains unbroken.
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Melons and tomatoes are going to love the hot, hot weather. Peaches not so much.
Wednesday is shaping up to be the hottest day Roseburg’s ever seen.
With temperatures soaring into the triple digits for the next few days, pet owners are cautioned to pay attention to the adverse effects of heat on animals both inside and outdoors.
