This morning started off with a bit of east wind and a bit of an easterly gradient, .05 (pdx-dls) to be exact. The easterlies will linger in the 18-22 range at Rooster and pick up to the 13-16 range at Steven’s Locks, peaking midday, and fading through the afternoon. Continued after the chart.
| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rooster’s Rocks | hot | rocks | rock hard |
butts | |
| Steven’s Locks | light | 5-10 | 10-13 | 12-15 | |
| Hatchery/White Salmon Sandbar (minus a few for Hood River) | light | 5-10 | 10-13 | 12-15 | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | drainage wind |
light | 5-10 | 12-15 | |
| Rufus, etc. | light | light | light | light | |
| Roosevelt, etc. | light | light | light | light | |
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Gorge Wind Forecast, continued…
Tomorrow, Friday, starts with light and variable wind, nice weather for fishing. Yesterday’s counts at Bonneville were 3588 Chinook and 408 Steelhead. Anyway, back to the wind… Expect light and variable conditions in the morning with westerlies at 15-18 from Steven’s Locks to The Dalles late in the afternoon.
Saturday starts off with west wind at 5-10 or so. As a frontal system moves east in the afternoon, hopefully before dark so you can get on the water, the wind will pick up. Expect gusty 10-13 in the western Gorge, where it will be raining. East of The Dalles, you’ll find gusty, up-and-down 25-29 all the way out to Threemile. At this point, Sunday does not look windy.
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Coast. Today: light south, SW swell 4′ @ 9 seconds. Tomorrow: periods of S 20-23, SW 13′ @ 13 seconds. Saturday: periods of S 30-40, SW 12′ @ 14.
Jones n’ Sauvie’s beta test forecast: no wind for the next three days except for some southerlies at Sauvie’s on Saturday.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
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Random Morning Thoughts
I am, as you may have gathered, totally fascinated by meditation. I believe it’s the key to reducing emotional suffering and to making nearly every moment of life vibrant and fear-free.
People who spend a lot of time sitting and watching their mental processes (watching, NOT thinking about) eventually come to the realization that they don’t control the start of those processes. Thoughts and emotions just arise. When observed objectively, they go away pretty quickly.
We don’t control the start of those processes, but can influence the direction they take. When we see a thought or an emotion and identify with it rather than just watching it, we feed it. Making this concrete, if we feel sadness, we might say, “I’m sad,” and “I’m sad because my lover left me,” and “I’m always sad,” followed by “everyone leaves me…” and so on.
So, we take a little sadness, and we create more anguish around it by creating more thoughts and emotions. This can create an ugly spiral of depression, anxiety and loneliness. The trick is to just watch the original emotion and let it wash over us without creating thoughts and stories around it. And then it will go away in its own time.
This may sound like madness, but I promise you that it is entirely possibly, given time, to stop the spirals of anxiety, depression, and worry in your world. You will still have crappy minutes, hours, and days, but you will be able to breathe through them. This is a promise from me to you as someone who’s been there and come out the other side.
Sit and watch your thoughts and emotions for a few minutes a day, and your entire world will change for the better.** Meditation. Pretty simple. Pretty awesome. Have an awesome day.
**disclaimer: as you watch what’s going on, things might get worse before they get better – what’s really going on in your head can be scary! – consult your mental health provider, not your weather forecaster, before attempting a meditation
Gorge Weather Forecast
I just looked out my window, and it’s high overcast out there, so I think today will start off cloudy. Yep. That right there is why they pay me the big bucks! Anyway, we may see some cloud dissipation later this afternoon, but for the morning, expect clouds. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and the mid 70’s this afternoon with high humidity and light east wind.
Tomorrow may start out partly cloudy, but will be cloudy in the afternoon with a chance of sprinkles late. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and the mid 70’s in the afternoon with light west wind, high humidity, and a 17% chance of rainbows.
Saturday starts off cloudy with temps in the upper 50’s and finishes of rainy with temps in the low 70’s. Light wind early, moderate wind late, high humidity, and a 56% chance of rainbows.
White Sprinter Van of the Day
Road and Mountain Biking
I’m not sure how much rain we received yesterday as I was in Portland all day, but I’m doubting it was enough to impact the trails. Maybe on Saturday. In the meantime, the trails are still there, and with winter rapidly approaching, your mountain biking days are numbered. Get out and ride despite the dust! That said, I’m issuing a tentative TackAlert for Sunday afternoon. You’ll find nice road biking weather today with light east wind, and nice road biking weather tomorrow morning with light wind. Saturday looks rainy after noon, so ride early.
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McCurdy Farms, Hood River
Need pears? Need apples? Need a suggestion for a good bike ride around here? The McCurdy Farms fruit stand halfway up Peggy’s Roost Hill (2080 Tucker Road, just below Portland Drive) has the best prices on the best fruit and the best ride suggestions too. Fruit prices are $.50-$.75/lb for beautiful pears and apples. Cycling advice is free. They have lots of my favorite pears, Comice. Maybe they have your favorites too. Stop by and say hi to Natalie and Craig when you ride by on your Valley Loop bike ride. Come back later for lots of fruit and suggestions on other rides. McCurdy Farms – the secret fruit stand not on the Fruit Loop map. Visit today.
Upcoming Events
Tonight is Thursday. There’s free Tai Chi at Our Savior Church in Bingen at 6;30 tonight, there’s free yoga at Yoga Samadhi at 6:30 tonight, and there’s free Zumba at the Mt. Hood Community Center at 6:30 tonight. Coming up this weekend, Yoga Samadhi hosts a free half-day meditation retreat with the monks from Pacific Hermitage on Saturday, 1pm – 5pm. There’s a Contact Improv workshop at the Paris Fair Building on Sunday, 4pm-7pm. That’s taught by an amazing friend of mine from Portland. Check it out if you can.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
