The sky cleared above Mt. Hood this morning, leaving a lovely bluebird powder day. Expect blue sky and sunshine today, with clouds moving in this evening and precip starting up after midnight. The snow level today will be 1500′ early, rising to 3000′ in the afternoon and dropping to 2000′ after midnight before jumping to 6500′ early Saturday morning. Today’s precip starts after midnight, and looks heavy: .5-.7” water value (WV) will fall between midnight tonight and 4am on Saturday. At some point that precip will probably switch from snow to rain… so… expect a couple of inches before the switch. Wind today will be WSW 25 early, slowly fading to SW 15 this evening and picking up to SW 25 after midnight. Continued after the chart.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Tomorrow starts off with very wet snow, snow mixed with rain, or just plain rain, switching to snow around noon and clearing after 5pm. We’ll see 1-1.5” WV between 4am and 4pm. Accumulation will depend on the precip type, but accumulation at 5000′ looks limited. After the mixed precip switches to snow around noon, we’ll see .2” WV, for a couple inches of new. Wind Saturday will be SW 30-40 during the day, becoming W 35 after 4pm and switching to SW 30 after midnight.
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Sunday starts off cloudy. Heavy precip moves in around 7am and finishes up around 4pm, leaving the mountain with clear sky overnight. The snow level will be 5500′ early, rising to 6000′-6500′ by 7am, dropping to 4000′ by noon and 2000′ overnight. We’ll see .9” WV between 7am and 4pm, likely starting as mixed precip, switching to rain, and switching back to snow, for 2-5” of new. After that we’ll see flurries and sunbreaks followed by clear sky. Wind on Sunday will be SW 25 early, switching to W 40 after noon and slowly dropping to W 20 by midnight.
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Gorge Wind Forecast
East wind at 10-15 all day today at Rooster, picking up overnight. East wind at 40 at Rooster tomorrow morning, dropping to E 10-15 after noon tomorrow. East wind at 30-35 at Rooster Sunday morning and west wind at 13-16 from Viento to Mosier on Sunday afternoon. Light east wind on Monday. Light and variable wind Tuesday morning, picking up to E 40 Tuesday afternoon.
Random Morning Thoughts
There’s this thing we humans do when we feel like we’ve made a mistake. We beat ourselves up. We call ourselves stupid, a failure, incompetent. We feel ashamed. We generalize what happened in one situation to our entire personhood. I suspect we do this in part because it helps us learn from a situation, and learn quickly, but it doesn’t feel good in the moment.
Making mistakes isn’t fun. But we all do it. It’s important to learn from mistakes, and it’s also important to remember that we are human and deserving of compassion. Sometimes this is hard to do, both with ourselves and with others. I think it’s important to remember that we were once children, and that we still have the sensitivity of children within us. If we can see ourselves (and others) as the children we once were, if we can hold ourselves and others with the compassion we’d have for an upset child, we’ll come through the mistake cycle with less pain and more growth.
Be gentle with yourself. You were once a little child, and you are still just a little, fallible human being. Hold yourself with the gentleness you’d hold a baby, and you’ll be okay in the end. Be well. Be awesome. Have an awesome day.
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist. 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.
Gorge Weather Forecast
Nothing is happening in the Gorge this morning, but if you’d like sunshine, you can head up to the mountain. Expect temps today in the mid 30’s early, the low 40’s this afternoon, and the low-mid 30’s tonight. We’ll see Nothing today, with precip starting after midnight. The GFS is pretty convinced we’ll go sub-freezing tonight. I’m not, but I do think we’ll see a mix of wet snow, sleet and rain after midnight down to river level. Upper valleys should see a couple inches of snow tonight. East wind. No rainbows.
Tomorrow looks cloudy and very wet through noon, with sprinkles and Nothing after noon. Temps will be in the low-mid 30’s early and the low 40’s (maybe!) in the afternoon. We’ll see mixed rain, sleet and snow down to river level through noon, with showery rain after that. It’ll be dry in the evening and overnight. Upper valleys will likely see snow early and a switch to freezing rain by 7am, with just-rain after noon. East wind. No rainbows.
Sunday starts off cloudy and quickly turns rain with sunbreaks and sprinkles in the afternoon. Temps will be in the mid 30’s early and the low 40’s in the afternoon. East wind early, west wind in the afternoon, 85% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
What’s not snowy is muddy. What’s not muddy is under snow. Your best bet is road biking or gravel grinding.
Upcoming Events
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