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The Forecast
| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven’s Locks | LTV | 5-10 | 13-16 | 13-16 | |
| Swell-Hood River | LTV | W5-10 | 20-23 | 24-27 | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | LTV | W5-10 | 20-23 | 24-27 | |
| Rufus, etc. | 7-10 | 10-13 | 20-23 | 24-27 | |
| Roosevelt & Arlington | 10-13 | 10-13 | 20-23 | 24-27 | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
Oregon and Washington are encouraging people to not travel more than 50 miles (not mph!) to access recreation. Non-essential travel is still being strongly discouraged in ALL jurisdictions. Land managers and law enforcement are carefully watching to see if people maintain social distancing. If crowding happens, water access will be revoked. If you are local and lucky enough to have water access in your community, please do this: rig, play, leave. There is NO camping allowed at any of the river parks. Please don’t camp unlawfully; doing so risks access for everyone, including for people who just want to use the parks for a picnic. Please follow the directions of your local government officials and help keep the Gorge community safe. Thank you!
It’s another soggy, gray morning in the western Gorge, but this will be the end of the gray, cool, calm weather for at least several days. A weak low off the coast moves inland this afternoon. Strong high pressure builds in behind it. Will it happen early enough for westerlies? Yes! Could the timing be better? Sure, but it’s good enough. What you see is what you get this morning, perhaps with a bit of a bump to 12-15 east of Rufus as the desert warms. Our friendly low pressure system crosses the Cascades around 2pm. Westerlies build after that, to gusty 12-16 in the partly cloudy west and 24-27 from Mosier to Arlington. Stronger wind is possible if everything works out just right, but bank on those mid-20’s. River flow is 266kcfs and temp is 58 degrees.
Offshore high pressure builds to 1030mb on Wednesday and our not-so-strong low hangs in the Columbia Basin. That’s enough for dawn patrol at 21-25 from Viento to Mosier with 16-19 east of there. It appears that the high pressure may push far enough inland to decrease the wind from Stevenson to Moiser in the afternoon. It does appear that upper flow will have enough north to it to create gusty conditions on the river. Whether or not the afternoon wind fades west of Mosier, we’ll have 25-29, perhaps a bit more, for Rowena to Rufus.
Thursday sees that high pressure push inland for a lighter wind day. Expect light westerlies to start with W 16-19 in the afternoon from Stevenson to Mosier. It’s worth noting that models are actually predicting very little wind that day, but it appears that strong offshore high pressure may provide just enough energy to keep the westerlies going. Don’t be surprised if we see low double digits instead of upper teens.
On to Friday through Sunday. Friday looks calm in the morning with upper teens in the afternoon. Models suggest that Saturday and Sunday will be windier. Sunday’s forecast contains a fair bit of uncertainty as far as cloud cover and/or potential rain, so details are not yet clear.
Jones, Sauvie Island, Coast
Coast (north/central/south – swell forecast provided by NWS). Tuesday: NW5-10/NW5-10/N5-10, W swell 7′ at 11 seconds. Wednesday: N10-15/25-30/30-40, W 5′ @ 9. Thursday: 15-20/25-30/30-40, W 4′ @ 9. Jones Tuesday: 5-10. Wednesday: 13-16. Thursday: 15-28. Sauvie Island Tuesday: nope. Wednesday: 10-13. Thursday: 15-18.Open/Closed Launch Site List -All restrooms are closed!
Washington:Skamania County – Phase 2, recreate with 5 or less people outside household
Stevenson East Point, Bob’s Beach, Boat ramp: all open
Home Valley: Open
Swell City: Open
Spring Creek Hatchery: Open
Klickitat County – Phase 2
Wunderbar: high water
Bingen Point: Open
Lyle: you have to cross private property to access
Doug’s Beach: Open
Avery: Open
Maryhill: Open for day use only..
The Wall: Open.
Roosevelt: CLOSED due to windstorm damage..
Oregon: Phase one for Hood River. Phase two for Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam counties.
Rooster Rock: Open
Viento: Open
The Hook: Open
Waterfront Park: Closed
Event Site: Open
The Spit: Open
The Marina: Open
Boat ramp: open
Mosier: Only open for residents of 97040
Rowena: Open
Celilo: Open
Rufus: Open
Arlington: Open
Threemile: Open
Mt. Hood Weather Forecast
Mt. Hood Meadows is now allowing uphill travel within the permit area. However, you will need to park outside their parking lots. Timberline is open for lift-serve skiing with exemplary guidelines for protecting guests and staff from the transmission of novel coronavirus. Please read their guidelines and rules here. Well done, T-Line! The Mt. Hood weather forecast will be on vacation unless something interesting happens in the weather up there. Some of you will be tempted to go out backcountry skiing. Please don’t – accidents do happen, and you may put others at risk. Timberline is allowing uphill access outside the permit area on the climbers’ trail ONLY.Hood River Weather Forecast
Clouds and sprinkles this morning give way to sunbreaks this afternoon. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and mid 60’s later. Light wind early. Moderate later. 63% chance of rainbows. Wednesday looks partly cloudy to start and then sunny. Temps will be int eh low 50’s early and low 70’s later. Moderate to strong westerlies. No rainbows. Thursday looks sunny. Temps will be near 50 early and near 80 later. Light wind early. Light to moderate westerlies later. No rainbows. Looking for a complete Columbia Gorge forecast? Looking for more humor in your weather? Obscenities? You’re looking for my TATAS: Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service on Facebook.Cycling
Trail update 6/15: In Post Canyon, Uptrack (new upper 8 track) and Eldorado will be closed for at least several days due to logging operation in the area. It’s too wet to ride there right now, anyway! Syncline/Coyote Wall: Open. Mt. Hood National Forest: Open for day use. Surveyor’s, Dog River, and Oak Ridge snow-free. Kreps/SDS: open. Sandy Ridge: Open. Nestor Peak: open. Falls Creek: open. Columbia Hills State Park: open. Syncline: open . Skamania County trails outside the scenic area: open. Knebal, Eightmile, Fifteenmile, Bottle Prairie, Surveyors, Dog River: open and cleared. Ape Canyon: Open!
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