Thursday’s thunderstorm entertained onlookers as long arcs of electricity crackled through the night’s sky.
An excessive heat warning and a heat advisory will be in effect throughout Central Douglas County from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday night.
Douglas County was hit by record temperatures on Thursday, with the mercury getting to 91 degrees in Roseburg. But National Weather Service meteorologists say it will cool down considerably early next week, and the area could be in for some rain by the middle of the week.
President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration Thursday for February storm damage in Oregon.
Flood fears dwindled like the water levels of local rivers and waterways on Wednesday thanks to a dry spell that brought sunshine to the Umpqua Valley on Tuesday.
Heavy rain over the weekend swelled streams and rivers in Douglas County, causing flood concerns and landslides with more rainfall included in immediate forecasts.
After the biggest snowstorm in decades hit Douglas County this week, the one upside may be drought relief.
Power is slowly starting to come back to thousands of Douglas County residents, many who have been without power for nearly a week after the biggest snowstorm in decades decimated the county’s power infrastructure.
Ronda Roman wasn’t just thinking about herself when she was shopping in on Tuesday afternoon. She had 17 other people to think of.
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners declared a local state of emergency at its meeting Wednesday morning in response to a series of snowstorms this week.
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Low-lying areas of Douglas County may be in for at least another few inches of snow through Wednesday morning, according to Brett Lutz, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Medford.
When Douglas County woke up on Monday morning to mounds of snow, and then again on Tuesday and Wednesday, some figured out a way to get to work, others found a way to enjoy the day off from school and work.
Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley: Closed Wednesday, Feb. 27.
More than 31,000 customers are without power across Douglas County, according to Pacific Power, as heavy snow fell Sunday night and Monday morning.
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A flood watch for Douglas County was issued by the National Weather Service for from 4 a.m. on Sunday until 4 a.m. on Tuesday.
A lot of rain and some snow has fallen in Douglas County during the last couple weeks. But the county is still in a drought.
A dusting of snow Monday afternoon turned out to be a preview of things to come Tuesday morning.
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Depending on where you live in Douglas County, this weekend could be your best chance of the winter to see snow.
The National Weather Service said an urban and small stream flood advisory remains in effect until 2 a.m. Sunday for several counties in Southwest Oregon, including Douglas County.
A “powerful” pacific storm that began drenching the West Coast on Wednesday is expected to include rain for Douglas County through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
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.
