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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
It’s another lovely Indian Summer day, and last night’s west wind has cleared the smoke from the Gorge. I was road biking on Larch Mountain yesterday (the Larch Mountain in Oregon, not the Larch Mountain in Washington with the mountain biking trails), and it was really smoky. Oh what a difference a day makes.
There are a couple of weak cold fronts moving across the PNW today, and that’s making it windy. With the cloud line somewhere west of Hood River, Hood River will be the spot for strongest wind today, with a caveat: this is frontally driven wind, so it’s going to be gusty, and I suspect that the strongest wind this afternoon will shift to Stevenson, as the central Gorge gets really gusty.
That said, we have a .15 gradient as I write this report. That’s going to be good enough for a quick build to 27-30 at Swell and Mosier this morning, with 21-24+ in Hood River. Come afternoon, we’ll see 26-29 at Stevenson, with gusty 24-28 near Hood River and the Doug’s/Rowena stretch.
The wind situation gets really interesting this evening, at temps in the desert plummet and high pressure builds in over eastern Oregon. We’ll see easterlies at 30-40+ tomorrow, with the strongest wind from 10am-1pm at Rooster and Stevenson. Yes, this would be a good day for the Home Valley downwinder, assuming you have small enough gear.
Easterlies continue in the 25-29 range through Friday.
The only thing I have on my calendar for this weekend (suggestions, please), is the supported road ride between Oak Ridge and Blue River, supposedly super beautiful, but affected to an unknown level by smoke from wildfires.
Speaking of wildfires, the easterlies will come with humidity in the 10% range, so be very careful with fire over the next few days. Also, there’s a decent chance of frost both tonight and tomorrow night, so protect your sensitive plants.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
