45* 44.044' N by 122* 51.695' W

CLEAR SKIES ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING WITH MARINE STRATUS EXPANDING ALONG THE COAST. WEAK ONSHORE FLOW SHOULD ALLOW SOME CLOUDS TO FILTER INTO GAPS THIS MORNING. INLAND AREAS WILL SEE SUNSHINE MUCH OF THE DAY WITH MODELS BACKING OFF ON INTENSITY OF MARINE PUSH THIS MORNING...THUS UPPED TODAYS MAX TEMPS TO MID 70S FOR VALLEYS AND DECREASED CLOUD COVER THOUGH STILL MAY SEE A FEW STRAY PATCHES OF CLOUDS IN COOLEST AREAS. DIURNAL ONSHORE PATTERN CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS A WEAK UPPER TROUGH PERSISTS NEAR THE PAC NW COAST. THIS WILL GIVE AREAS OF LATE NIGHT/MORNING LOW CLOUDS INLAND VALLEYS BUT WITH CONSIDERABLE AFTERNOON SUNSHINE. INLAND MAXIMUM TEMPS LOOK TO BE CLOSER TO LATE MAY NORMALS...WITH LESS UPPER RIDGING THAN PREVIOUSLY INDICATED. AFTERNOON SEA BREEZES WILL MAINTAIN COOL TEMPS NEAR THE COAST WITH PREDOMINATELY CLOUDIER CONDITIONS.

CHILE: VIOLENT PROTESTS ERUPT IN STRUGGLING QUELLON

PATAGONIA TIMES

Benjamin Witte
Rampant unemployment in the fishing-dependent city of Quellón (Region X) has created a pressure cooker of social discontent that now looks to be boiling over. Starting Tuesday night, approximately 500 people occupied the main highway leading into Quellón, a city of approximately 30,000 located in the south of Chiloé island. Early the next morning police moved in to break up the demonstration. An ensuing confrontation left four police officers injured, according to the Quellón municipal government.