Work for Mt. Hood Meadows!
With the La Nina winter still going strong, Mt Hood Meadows is looking forward to an awesome spring of skiing and snowboarding! You can be part of the team that keeps the season going. Check out www.skihood.com/jobs to apply. Want more information? Visit that link to find contact info for the folks who can tell you more. See you on the mountain soon!
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
The forecasting world is a little tricky this morning because the GFS model is delayed. That’s leaving me with detailed information that stops on Monday afternoon. So, let’s start with today, which is Saturday. It is snowing on Mt. Hood this morning, and we’ll see snow during the day with increasing sunbreaks as the afternoon goes on. The snow level will be 2000′ early and 3500′ in the afternoon, dropping back to 2000′ tonight under mostly clear sky. We’ll see .1-.2” water value (WV) during the day, for 1-2” of new snow. Wind today will be SW 30 early, SW 15 in the afternoon, and SW 20 after midnight.
Sunday starts off partly cloudy but quickly turns snowy. The snow level will be 2000′ early, 4000′ in the afternoon, and 3000′ after midnight. We’ll see .4-.5” WV between 5am and 5pm, for 4-6” of new snow. Another .4” WV falls overnight, for another 4-5” of new snow by Monday morning. Wind on Sunday will be sW 20 early, SW 30 in the afternoon, and W 25 after midnight.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, finished
I’ll have to broad-brush the Monday/Tuesday forecast as the models aren’t up yet for that far out. For now. It looks like Monday will have light snowfall all day. The snow level will be 2500′ all day on Monday. Models suggest we’ll see a few inches of snow during the day on Monday followed by a few more inches of snow on Monday night. Wind on Monday will be WSW 25 or so pretty much all day.
Tuesday currently looks snowy during the day with temps warming up after midnight. The snow level will be around 2500′ in the morning and 6000′ after midnight. I’m thinking we’ll see a few inches of orographic snowfall with sunbreaks during the day. That’s followed by heavier snowfall that switches to rain overnight. We’ll probably have to wait until tomorrow for more details about this.
Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s Saturday. Expect light west wind early this morning. After noon, we’ll have W 10-13 from Stevenson to The Dalles and W 13-16 east of The Dalles. River temp is 44 degrees at Bonneville and flow is 454kcfs at The Dalles. Sunday brings east wind at 20-25 all day. Monday looks like W 10-13 everywhere in the morning with W 12-15 from Steven’s Locks to The Dalles and 22-25 east of The Dalles in the afternoon.
Jones, Sauvie’s, Coast Beta Test Forecast
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Random Morning Thoughts
One of the things they neglect to mention in my program is how immensely rewarding counseling can be for the counselor. We are fed piles of information, warned to manage our boundaries carefully and admonished to take care of ourselves. While those things are important, I believe that being a counselor is an incredibly nourishing, honorable, awe-inspiring profession where we turn our capacity to listen into a supportive agent of change.
But this isn’t about counseling. It’s about the ways in which we can all be happier by helping others. Some religions recognize the power of generosity, and there are many research studies backing up the impact our acts of kindness towards others have on us. Did that make sense? Let me put it more clearly: when we are kind to others, especially when we experience their gratitude, we are ourselves happier.
If you can create a genuine feeling of kindness in your heart and turn that emotion into action, you will be happier. Your neural networks will more frequently give rise to happy emotions. You will feel more loving towards others and more appreciated by others. These things feel good, right? So get your butt up from in front of the computer and go do a small act of kindness. You’re awesome. Have an awesome day!
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist (but I could be 40 graduate school credits from now). I am your weather forecaster. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, and consult with your actual therapist about your mental health issues. One other thing: I plan to keep doing this forecast indefinitely, even when I am a therapist.
Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s mostly cloudy out there this morning, but I’m convinced it’ll be partly cloudy by this afternoon! Temps will be in the low 40’s early and the low 50’s later today. On and off sprinkles. Light west wind. 79% chance of rainbows. Sunday starts out cloudy and turns rainy after 10am. The rain continues all day and through the evening. Temps will be in the mid 30’s early and the upper 40’s in the afternoon. East wind. No rainbows. Monday looks partly cloudy and showery during the day with rain overnight. Temps will be in the low 40’s early and the low 50’s in the afternoon. Moderate west wind. 99% chance of rainbows.
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White Sprinter Van of the Day
Road and Mountain Biking
If you’d like to go mountain biking, you can head to Syncline with half of Portland. That’s pretty much all that’s open. Do not ride Post, because you will damage it. Plus, you’ll not enjoy all the downed trees and branches. Dirty Fingers has a biathlon Cold Lap today at 3pm, and I’m going for a road ride as soon as it warms up a little.
Upcoming Events
Ron Wyden has a town hall at Hood River Middle School on Saturday at 11am (still no word from Greg Walden, but his constituents are holding a town hall without him in early April). At 6pm today at Kickstand, there’s a fundraiser for an organization that helps kids whose parents have died in avalanches.
In other news, there’s a trail run at 8am in Post Canyon (too muddy to ride, just right for running), Skibowl has the Snow Beach Festival today, Meadows has a festival at their Nordic Center, and Dirty Fingers has a biathlon instead of the Cold Lap (yes, with guns). Today is the Wheatfield half marathon (etc) in The Dalles.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
