Roseburg to Receive Up to 1.5 Inches of Rain Amidst Storm Warning

The entire area will see substantial precipitation Wednesday into Friday. Ponding of water on roadways will be present during this time frame. Now is a great time to clean the Fall leaves from your storm drains. Here is the full forecast discussion from the NWS in Medford: Brief upper level ridging is present over the area this afternoon, bringing partly cloudy skies and dry weather. Temperatures this afternoon will remain cool, around 5 to 10 degrees below normal for the end of October. Unsettled weather returns to the area tomorrow mid morning as an upper trough and associated cold front moves east toward the Oregon coastline. Precipitation will spread quickly west to east, impacting the entire region by Wednesday evening. Snow levels will start out around 4000 feet with the onset of precipitation, rising to around 5500 feet Wednesday afternoon, and then falling again to around 4000 feet late Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon. We have issued a winter storm warning for the Cascades from Wednesday afternoon through Friday, impacting Crater Lake National Park, Diamond Lake, Highways 230, 62, and 138. Highway 58 at the Willamette Pass will also be impacted. This area is expected to receive 1 to 2 feet of snow during that time period (Wednesday afternoon through Friday afternoon.) Looking through high res data, the greatest chance (60% to 80% chance) of 1 inch per hour snowfall rates in the next 48 hours looks to be from around 3 pm Wednesday through 9 pm Wednesday. There does look to be another period of heavy snow during the Thursday to Friday time frame, but we will fine tune that as it gets closer. Southerly winds will strengthen ahead of the cold front, with the Shasta Valley and the east side seeing the brunt of this. Winds are expected to remain below advisory levels, however wind gusts between 30 and 45 mph will be present from late Wednesday morning into the evening hours. Once the cold front passes, we will be in a showery pattern Wednesday night into Thursday morning before another round of steady precipitation Thursday afternoon into Friday. The upper low is forecast to remain nearly stationary, wobbling a bit near the northern Washington coastline and the southern British Columbia coastline, continuing to bring unsettled weather to the area. Through Friday afternoon, snow levels generally hover around the 5000 foot mark. Rain totals from Wednesday morning into early Friday morning will generally range from 1.5 to 2 inches along the coast, the coastal mountains could see 2.5 to nearly 4 inches, with the west side valley locations generally between 1 to 1.5 inches. The east side will see between a 1/4 and 3/4 of an inch. Via NWS in Medford