Tuesday: westerlies and more westerlies…

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Limited marine clouds this morning and high pressure pushing in from the southeast lead to a lighter day on the river. The opposite happens tomorrow; a deep marine layer combines with heat in the desert for a strong westerly day. This setup, minus a bit of cloud depth, continues on Thursday for another solid day on the river. As of this morning, it appears the westerlies will continue through the weekend.

Today’s biggest story is heat all across the land; this leads to diminished wind strength and quality for most of the day. You’ll have to wait for evening for a bit of a surge. The day starts with gradients of .08 and .03 and westerlies at 7-11 most places. Viento, as always, is the exception with a 20-23mph start. Late morning wind climbs to gusty 15-18 from Stevenson to Mosier with 7-10 to Doug’s and light wind to the east. That’s pretty much the setup until evening. An approaching trough starts to impact the wind mid-evening, if we’re lucky; that’ll take the wind to 21-26 from Mosier to Celilo, perhaps to Rufus. During that time, the western gorge drops to 12-15 and the far east picks up to 10-13. River flow is way down today: 125kcfs at The Dalles. River temp is 68F. High temp forecast is 95F.

A trough settles in on the western half of the region on Wednesday morning. Marine clouds pour into the area, probably not to Hood River, but definitely to Cascade Locks. They’ll hang out until early afternoon. Dawn Patrol westerlies will be plenty strong for you to sneak in a session before work: expect 25-29 from Viento to Arlington right off the bat. By late morning, speeds climb to 28-32 from Viento to Arlington. It does appear the western Gorge will drop to 20-25 in the afternoon, but you’ll still have 28-32 from Mosier eastward until evening. High temp: 79F for Hood River.

Slightly less marine clouds will be present on Thursday morning, but the wind will still be here for you. Expect Dawn Patrol at 21-24 from Viento to Mosier with 7-10 everywhere else. Midday westerlies climb to 25-28 from Stevenson to The Dalles with 13-16+ (and rising fast) at Rufus with 7-10 out east. Late afternoon wind fills in to Arlington in the mid to upper 20’s.

Friday looks somewhat lighter with wind in the mid teens. The weekend forecast is current for mid 20’s on Saturday and mid to upper 20’s on Sunday. Looks like a great week on the river. Enjoy!  

Coast, Jones, Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind direction north unless otherwise noted. Swell forecast from NWS.) Tuesday: NW15-20/NNW10-15/N10, NW swell 4′ at 9 seconds. Wednesday: W5-10/NW10/N30-35, NW 5′ @ 8. Thursday: NW10-15/N15-20/N30-35, NW 3′ @ 8. Jones Tuesday: 17-20. Wednesday: 12-15. Thursday: 15-18. Sauvie’s Tuesday: 13-16. Wednesday: 12-15 > 5pm. Thursday: 10-13.  

Mt. Hood Weather forecast

On vacation unless some wintry weather happens.  

Hood River Weather Forecast

Clear sky Tuesday stays clear. Temps will be in the low 60’s early and mid 90’s later. Slight chance of thunder overnight. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Wednesday may start with high clouds. It turns clear by late morning. Temps will be in the low 60’s early and upper 70’s later. Very strong westerlies. No rainbows. Thursday will be sunny all day. Temps will be in the upper 50’s early and low 80’s later. Strong westerlies. 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

SDS (Whoopdee, Underwood), BLC, HFM, DGS, and Kreps Land (Hospital Hill) are now closed until the end of fire season. It is also vital that people respect this closure to maintain positive relationships between the landowners and trail users.

Open trails: Post, Falls Creek, Lewis River, Sandy Ridge, Columbia Hills, Gorge 400, Plains of Abraham / Ape Canyon. From the 44trails.org website… Open trails: Eightmile, Fifteenmile, Bottle Prairie, Dog River, Superconnector, Cedar, Knebal, Cooks (to 1.5 miles above the 4410 road), 450 to the junction with 15 mile, Underhill. Upper 450: patches of snow and 10 trees down. Siouxon and Huffman Peak are “temporarily closed”.

Maple Road in Post Canyon is closed. DO NOT drive past the closed signs. If you do so, you will jeopardize TRAIL access for the entire summer. This is the road that runs to the west, just north of the Binns/Riorden intersection. Also, the trail from the bottom of Post Canyon to Seven Streams Staging Area is now closed. It’s on private land. Respect the closure. Surveyor’s Ridge: clear of snow and trees. Other 44 Road Trails: clearing in progress.  

Local Events

Mountain View Cycles women’s ride is every Thursday, bottom of Post at 5:30pm. They have an all-genders ride at 6pm on Wednesday, end of the pavement on Post Canyon Road. Their shop road ride leaves at 9am on Saturday for a 2 hour ride. Dirty Fingers has the Post n’ Pint on Thursday evenings at 5:30pm from the shop. They also have the women’s Post n’ Pinot Wednesday evening at 5:30pm from the shop. Oregon E-Bikes has ladies’ rides at 7:30am Sunday and Monday. The Small Boat Group does paddles every Thursday evening at 6pm. Hatch laps are the latest thing they do.

Other weekly events. Tuesday night there’s meditation with the Pacific Hermitage Monks at 5:15 (1 hour) and 6:30 (30 minutes followed by a talk) at Yoga Samadhi in White Salmon. Triathlon practice with the Tri Club is Tuesday at 6pm at West Mayer State Park. Sailboat races happen Wednesday night from the Hood River Marina.  

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