Thank you for using this forecast. I offer it freely so you can have more fun and plan your life. It does take significant time and energy to produce. If you find yourself using it often, or if you feel your life is enhanced by this information, please make a donation. I count on your support to pay my bills, and am deeply grateful to you for choosing to help support me. You can get this forecast via email by donation. The email subscription isn’t $99/year. Not $50/year. Donating $12.34 or more gets you on the list for 12 months. Click on my photo to donate. Don’t PayPal? Send a check to Temira @ PO Box 841 in Hood River. Thank you for your support and thank you for trusting my forecast.
 |
4a-8a | 8a-12p | 12p-4p | 4p-8p | 8p-4a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 12,000′ |
 |
|
|
|
|
| Monday 10,000′->4000′ |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
| Tuesday 4000′->3000′ |
 |
|
|
 |
|
Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
Synopsis: Sunshine on Sunday, sunshine on Monday with rain after 10pm, light snowfall Tuesday, snow-rain-snow on Wednesday. Monday night is Hood River Rotary Night at Meadows with $20 tickets to benefit Rotary. Looks like the weather will be cloudy and precip-free until the lifts close.
For Sunday, we’ll have a sunny day on the hill. If you are below the clouds, head on up. Meadows has free shuttles from the Hood River Event Site if you don’t want to deal with their parking lots. The free air freezing level (FAF) will be 12,000′ on Sunday. Wind will be 10mph out of the south.
Monday starts off clear and turns cloudy in the evening. Light rain starts up around 10pm and switches to light snow after midnight. The snow level will be 10,000′ early, 8000′ when the precip hits, and 4000′ after midnight. The mountain will see 1/10” to 1/4” rain. That will be followed by 1-3” of snow. Wind will be S 10 in the morning, S 15 in the afternoon, SW 25 in the evening, and SW 20 after midnight.
Tuesday sees very light and intermittent snowfall under cloudy sky during the day and partly cloudy sky overnight. The snow level will be 4000′ in the morning and 3000′ in the afternoon. Just .1” WV falls, for an inch of new during the day. Wind will be SW 20 during the day and SW 10 in the evening.
Wednesday starts off with high clouds and a beautiful sunrise. Precip starts around 10am. The most likely scenario as of right now is snow-rain-snow on Wednesday. The snow level will be 3000′ ealry, 4000′ when the precip hits, 6000′ at the peak of the precip, and 3000′ overnight. Best guess is 2-3” snow followed by 1/2”-1” rain followed by 3-5” snow. Wind will be SSW 10 early, rising to SW 30 in the afternoon, SW 20 in the evening, and W 30 after midnight, which will contribute to orographic accumulation.
Both the ECMWF and the GFS predict light snowfall on Thursday and Friday, but the forecasts diverge after that. So… no long-range forecasting is possible.
Random Morning Thoughts
If we want to stay emotionally healthy, one of the most important things we can do is stay in touch with what’s happening with our emotions. We’re all busy. If you’re not busy, stop and let yourself be grateful for that. When we are busy, we sometimes push our painful emotions away to “deal with later”. This might not be fully conscious, but it’s something we do.
When we do that, our original emotion can grow or morph into something bigger, darker, and more complex. We can save some future suffering by taking a moment with our emotions. This can be quite simple. Say you’re in the store and experience annoyance at the check writer in front of you. You’re mad because they’re delaying everyone around you and they don’t seem to care!
Sit with this for a moment and see what else is there. Perhaps you’re anxious because you have very little time. Perhaps you’re afraid because you can’t control this situation (or other people’s reactions in general). Don’t engage with what arises. Just watch it. It’ll change, move through, and leave you feeling something else. Sit with that too. By the time you’re done with this process, it’ll probably be time to pay for your groceries!
Watching your emotions as they arise rather than tucking them away for later will save you future suffering. You will also come to know yourself better, allowing you more freedom from those same emotions. Give it a shot. Have an awesome day.
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist, but I am seeing clients at this time at Comprehensive Healthcare in White Salmon. In the meantime, 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. Forecasting and counseling are both deeply meaningful and nourishing to me.
Gorge Wind Forecast
For Sunday, we’ll have east wind at 50 at Rooster and 35-40 at Steven’s Locks all day with 25 at Viento. Monday starts off like Sunday. The wind will fade after 7pm, becoming light after midnight. Tuesday sees E 5 or so for the first half of the day and W 5 or so after 4pm.
Gorge Weather Forecast
there’s a Nothing out there this morning, and it’s not going anywhere. Expect temps in the mid-40’s today. East wind. No rainbows. Monday looks like another Nothing. Temps will be in the upper 30’s early and low 40’s in the afternoon. Rain starts after 8pm. East wind. No rainbows. Tuesday looks sprinkly and showery and mostly dry. Temps will be in the upper 30’s early and mid 40’s in the afternoon. Light and variable wind turns west after 4pm. 18% chance of late-day rainbows.
For weather specifically directed at travel through the Gorge, please visit Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service on Facebook.
White Sprinter Van of the Week
Road and Mountain Biking
Post Canyon is currently closed to all users to protect the trails from damage. Whoopdee is closed to bikes and horses for the same reason. Syncline remains mobbed. Nestor remains open.
Upcoming Events
Next Wednesday is the annual Chili Cookoff at DF. There are three free yoga classes (by donation) on Sunday: 9am at Samadhi, 4pm at Pure Yoga in The Dalles, 6pm at Pure Yoga Hood River. There’s also 11am pickup touch rugby for all ages at the Hood River Marina.
Click here for the full events calendar.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
