A cool and dry air mass combined with clear skies to bring freezing temperatures to portions of southwest Oregon.
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The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
A cool and dry air mass combined with clear skies to bring freezing temperatures to portions of southwest Oregon.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 1:52 PM PST, 12 hours 8 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 frost/freeze. Local standard time, as filed.
Reported low temperatures in this zone ranged from 31 to 42 degrees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, May 2019
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 811631.