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FXUS66 KMFR 081309  
AFDMFR  
 
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR  
609 AM PDT WED OCT 8 2025  
   
DISCUSSION  
CONFIDENCE IS HIGHER THAT OUR WEATHER FOR THE NEXT  
WEEK, AND POSSIBLY THE NEXT 10 DAYS, WILL BE DOMINATED BY TWO  
BROAD, SLOW-MOVING UPPER LEVEL TROUGHS. THE FIRST TROUGH IS NOW  
OFFSHORE OF WASHINGTON AND EXPECTED TO EXIT EAST OF OUR AREA LATE  
SATURDAY. THE SECOND TROUGH WILL FOLLOW CLOSELY BEHIND AND FOLLOW  
A SIMILAR TRACK SUNDAY INTO WEDNESDAY.  
 
THE FIRST SIGN OF THIS CHANGE TO A LOW PRESSURE DOMINATED PATTERN  
IS THE OVERNIGHT INFLUX OF STRATUS INTO COOS AND WESTERN DOUGLAS  
COUNTIES. THIS STRATUS IS EXPECTED TO LIFT AND GET SOME BREAKS IN  
THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON, WHILE MOST OF OUR AREA SEES A LATE  
DAY INCREASE IN MID AND UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS. THERE WILL ALSO BE  
SEVERAL DEGREES OF COOLING, COMPARED TO YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AND  
GUSTY, BREEZY SOUTHWEST TO WEST AFTERNOON WINDS. THESE WINDS WILL  
BE STRONGEST EAST OF THE CASCADES. LATE IN THE DAY AND OVERNIGHT,  
THOUGH PARTICULARLY IN THE EVENING, ISOLATED SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP,  
WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OVER THE CASCADES.  
 
AFTER TODAY, ALL OF OUR AREA WILL HAVE TEMPERATURES TRENDING MUCH  
COOLER, WITH RAIN CHANCES, AND PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS. RAIN  
CHANCES ARE EXPECTED TO BE HIGHEST ON FRIDAY AND MONDAY. THIS  
INCLUDES SLIGHT CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR PORTIONS OF OUR AREA  
ON BOTH OF THOSE DAYS.  
 
OUR WEATHER TOMORROW WILL STILL HAVE SOME SIMILARITY TO TODAY, BUT  
WITH ADDITIONAL COOLING, A SHIFT TO GUSTY SOUTH WINDS FOR THE  
SHASTA VALLEY AND EAST SIDE IN THE AFTERNOON, AND A GENERAL  
INCREASE IN CLOUD COVER WITH A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF MAINLY LIGHT  
SHOWERS, MAINLY FROM THE COAST TO THE CASCADES.  
 
THE MAIN FRONT IS EXPECTED TO TRACK INLAND ON FRIDAY MORNING AND  
LOOKS TO WEAKEN SLIGHTLY BEFORE IT TRACKS ACROSS THE EAST SIDE  
LATE IN THE DAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO  
BE HIGHEST FOR COOS AND WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTIES FROM AROUND A  
HALF INCH TO AN INCH AND A QUARTER. MEANTIME, AMOUNTS OF A QUARTER  
TO A HALF INCH ARE EXPECTED TO BE COMMON ELSEWHERE FROM THE COAST  
TO THE CASCADES, AND LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH ON THE EAST  
SIDE.  
 
SATURDAY SHOULD BE CHARACTERIZED BY THE TROUGH STARTING THE DAY  
OVER OUR AREA WITH ANOTHER DISTURBANCE IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT  
BRINGING LIGHTER SHOWERS. NEW PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED  
TO BE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH, AND FOR MANY SITES WILL BE  
LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH. THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED  
FOR WEST TO NORTHWEST FACING SLOPES, INCLUDING KALMIOPSIS  
WILDERNESS AND THE CASCADES.  
 
UNCERTAINTY IN THE FORECAST DETAILS INCREASES BY A NOTCH FOR  
SUNDAY WITH DIFFERENCES IN THE ARRIVAL TIME AND SOUTHERN EXTENT OF  
THE STRONGER, WETTER PORTION OF A COLD FRONT. THIS FRONT WILL BE  
ASSOCIATED WITH THE SECOND TROUGH, WITH THE TROUGH EXPECTED TO  
MOVE OFF THE WASHINGTON COAST DURING THE DAY. AS SUCH, THE HIGHEST  
PROBABILITY OF RAIN WILL BE FOR COOS, DOUGLAS, AND NORTHERN  
KLAMATH COUNTIES, AND AREAS NORTHWARD.  
 
MODELS AGREE THAT THIS SECOND TROUGH WILL STILL AFFECT OUR AREA  
MONDAY THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY TUESDAY. BUT, A SLOWER PROGRESSION  
IS POSSIBLE. THE POSITION OF THE TROUGH WILL DICTATE RAIN AND  
THUNDER CHANCES, BUT THERE IS SUPPORT FOR EXPECTING RAINFALL  
AMOUNTS ON MONDAY TO RESEMBLE THOSE FROM FRIDAY.  
 
A COOL, SHOWERY AIRMASS IS THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO FOR TUESDAY  
INTO WEDNESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES AROUND DAY 6/7 ARE EXPECTED TO  
BE AROUND 20 DEGREES COLDER THAN THOSE OF YESTERDAY. -DW  
 
 
   
AVIATION...08/12Z TAFS  
LIGHT, DOWNSLOPE NORTHEAST WINDS ALONG THE  
CURRY COUNTY COAST HAVE PRODUCED ENOUGH DRYING TO PRODUCE A BREAK IN  
THE STRATUS. MVFR STRATUS DOES EXTEND OVER THE COAST AND COASTAL  
WATERS FROM CAPE BLANCO NORTHWARD, AND ACROSS COOS AND WESTERN  
DOUGLAS COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES THE COQUILLE, CAMAS, AND LOWER  
UMPQUA VALLEYS. THIS CONDITION IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH AROUND  
18Z THIS MORNING, BEFORE THE COASTAL STRATUS LIFTS, EXPECTED TO RISE  
JUST ENOUGH TO BECOME VFR. ALSO, THE MVFR STRATUS MAY BRIEFLY REACH  
ROSEBURG/KRBG AROUND 14-17Z THIS MORNING.  
 
ELSEWHERE, CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO THIS AFTERNOON.  
A CHANGE IN OUR WEATHER WILL BE APPARENT ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS  
AFTERNOON WITH GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WEST BREEZES AND INCREASING MID  
AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS. BY 00Z, EARLY THIS EVENING, WEAK INSTABILITY  
MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A FEW SHOWERS OVER AND NEAR THE  
CASCADES.  
 
MVFR IS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO THE COAST AROUND 06Z THIS EVENING, AND  
CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY MORNING. -DW  
 
 
   
MARINE...UPDATED 200 AM PDT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2025  
A  
COMBINATION OF NORTHERLY WINDS AND NORTHWEST SWELL WILL CONTINUE TO  
BUILD STEEP SEAS THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE INCREASE WILL  
BE MODEST, WITH CONDITIONS JUST BARELY SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT THE  
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.  
 
A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOOKS TO BRING SHOWERS FROM THURSDAY INTO  
SATURDAY. THE FIRST ASSOCIATED FRONT WILL BE WEAK, THOUGH WITH A  
SHIFT TO SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED EARLY THURSDAY. THE DECREASE IN  
WINDS FOR THURSDAY WILL RESULT IN A LONGER WAVE PERIOD. A STRONGER  
DISTURBANCE EARLY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A  
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS, AND MAY BRING A RETURN OF STEEP SEAS  
AND ADVISORY STRENGTH SOUTHERLY WINDS.  
 
SEAS BECOME SWELL DOMINATED SATURDAY THEN BUILD SUNDAY, AHEAD OF  
ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. NORTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED BY  
SATURDAY NIGHT WITH RAIN CHANCES CONTINUING. THE STRONGEST FRONT  
WITH THIS NEXT SYSTEM IS LIKELY MONDAY INTO MONDAY EVENING, WITH  
ANOTHER SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND A POSSIBLE RETURN OF  
STEEP SEAS. -DW  
 
 
   
MFR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES  
 
OR...CA...NONE.  
 
PACIFIC COASTAL WATERS...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 5 AM PDT THURSDAY  
FOR PZZ350-356-370-376.  
 
 
 
 
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