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First thing today, I’d like to say thank you to all of you who donated during August pledge drive month. There was never a day where I didn’t post a forecast, because every day someone donated. Thank you to all of you both for using this forecast and for supporting it! Remember that although it’s free for you to use, it’s not free for me. I put a lot of time into giving you an accurate forecast, and I pay for the hosting on this website. If you find it valuable, please take the time to make a donation to support what I do. Your generosity helps keep this going for everyone. I also send an email version of this forecast. Make a $12 or larger donation, and you’re on the email list for a year. No more dealing with the twice-yearly pledge drive, and you’ll also have a chance to win prizes from the sponsors. Thank you again for your support!
This week’s sponsor is Dirt Hugger, offering curbside food waste collection service for your business, school, office, store, restaurant or hospital in Hood River and The Dalles. All that food waste becomes awesome compost for your garden, yard, farm or vineyard. You can pick up that compost or have it delivered. If we as a society can’t make composting happen through our cities and counties, at least we can make it happen through a cool local business. This is one of my favorite businesses in the Gorge. Support them, please
Models are calling for another day of east wind today, with the wind rising to 15-18 in Stevenson and Rooster, before the wind slowly dies and switches to westerlies at 13-15 late in the afternoon.
It looks like we’ll start off with light westerlies tomorrow, before the wind swings back around and switches to light easterlies. On Thursday, we’ll see west wind at 10-15 or so, along with some high clouds and muggier weather. In other words, the next couple of days are going to be great for SUPing and wakeboarding and road biking, but not so great for wind sports.
In the extended forecast, westerlies pick up into the low twenties on Friday and then, if the forecast holds, blow in the upper twenties to low thirties on Saturday and Sunday. I can almost guarantee it will be super windy on Saturday and Sunday, as I’ll be at the Dirty Fingers mountain biking campout! (In other words, no forecast for you this weekend, sorry.)
For fun tonight, join the pickup touch rugby crowd at Hood River’s Marina at 6pm, or join the Columbia Gorge triathletes as they do their weekly workout, starting at the east end of the Event Site at 6pm.
Coming up this weekend, there will be cyclists all over the roads in the Gorge, so hopefully the a**hole who threw the tacks on Dee Highway won’t do it again. The Echelon Gran Fondo will send roadies on old highway 30 and the out towards Odell on Saturday. On Sunday, Gorge Owned sends bike commuters on the Super Commuter Race, a scavenger hunt, through Hood River. To join that race, show up at Tsuruta Park at 13th and State at 10am. And finally, in mountain bike world, it’s the Dirty Fingers annual customer appreciation party and campout this weekend.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
