It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s Wipper Wednesday! Time for your weekly 1980’s video! Enjoy! Now, on to your forecast… Expect high clouds on Mt. Hood this morning with mid-level clouds and maybe some sunbreaks this afternoon. The free air freezing level (FAF) will be 8000′ early and 6500′ in the afternoon. Wind today will be SW 10-15 all day. Continued after the chart.
 |
4a-8a | 8a-12p | 12p-4p | 4p-8p | 8p-4a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today 8000′->6500′ |
 |
|
|
 |
|
| Tomorrow 6500′->12000′ |
|
 |
|
|
|
| The next day 10000′->5000′ |
|
|
|
 |
 |
Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Thursday may start off with a few clouds, but it’ll turn sunny by mid-morning. The FAF will be 6500′ early and 12,000′ in the afternoon. Wind Thursday will be light SW all day.
Donate and keep the forecasts coming
See below for details.
Friday looks more interesting, and also difficult to get right. The day will start off sunny and turn cloudy around noon. Precip starts up around 6pm, continuing through Saturday morning. Different models are predicting different snow levels, but most likely, this is going to be mostly rain. As of today, it looks like the snow level will be 10,000′ early, dropping to 6500′ with the arrival of the precip, falling to 5000′ around 1am Saturday and 4500′ by 4am Saturday. For now, let’s call this 1-1.25” WV between 6pm Friday and 4am Saturday. It looks like at least the first 3/4” will fall as rain, followed by 3-5” of wet snow. That forecast is likely to change as we get closer to Friday. Wind Friday will be SW 10-15 for much of the day, rising to W 30 overnight.
Saturday currently looks snowy early with sunshine by noon. The snow level will be 5000′ early, 2000′ midday, and 5500′ overnight. Wind will be WSW 35 for much of the day, dropping to SW 10 in the evening. Sunday currently looks cloudy in the morning with rain in the afternoon.
Support your forecaster, Temira!
Thank you for using this forecast. Does it save you time, gas money, or help you have more fun in your life? Make a donation! Get your forecast here for free or donate and get on the mailing list for year-round wind forecasts and ski season snow forecasts. Just click on my photo to donate via PayPal or credit card. The email isn’t $99/year. Not $50/year. No, just $12.34 or more gets you on the list for 12 months, and sometimes there are cool prizes. Don’t PayPal? Send a check to Temira @ PO Box 841 in Hood River. Thank you for your support, and thank you for trusting my forecast.
Gorge Wind Forecast
Wednesday: East wind at 25-30 at Rooster this morning backs off to calm wind this afternoon. East wind at 20-25 Thursday morning with E 15-20 Thursday afternoon. East wind at 20-25 Friday morning with west wind at 15-18 Friday afternoon. Saturday looks interesting. If nothing changes between now and then, we’ll see a burst of very nice westerlies at 26-30, best east of Rowena, until 1pm or so.
Random Morning Thoughts
This being Wednesday, I was listening to cheesy 1980’s music while I was writing the forecast. To be specific, I was listening to Duran Duran. After a while, I wasn’t just listening. I was singing along. Be glad you’re not my neighbor, because I can’t hold a tune to save my life.
Anyway, this got me thinking: how is it possible that I know all the words to dozens and dozens of 1980’s songs, but I can’t remember anything about the chapter I read for class last week?
They (whoever they are), say that the best way to learn stuff is to wire it in using multiple methods. For example, research shows that taking notes by hand is more effective at solidifying knowledge than taking notes on a laptop. There’s something about the process of writing that works better than typing. Forming all those letters is complicated, perhaps, and creates more links between the new knowledge and the motor skills, allowing for easier retrieval?
Anyway, you can leverage this. For example, you could sing your notes to yourself, thus using multiple systems to remember the information. You could sing along with a new song, and write down the lyrics as you’re learning them. You could spin in circles like a forest fairy while listening to an audiobook or a lecture. The possibilities are as endless as your imagination. Play with it. Because your time is limited, and you wanna be efficient about learning so you can ski, snowboard, or ride a bike. 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
It’s a high overcast morning, and will likely stay high overcast all morning, maybe turning partly cloudy in the afternoon. Temps will be in the upper 30’s early and the mid 50’s this afternoon. East wind early. No wind later. No rainbows. Thursday looks partly cloudy early and sunny for most of the day. Temps will be in the low 30’s early and the mid 50’s in the afternoon. East wind. No rainbows. Friday starts off sunny, turns cloudy early in the afternoon and ends up rainy after 5pm. Temps will be around 40 in the morning and in the mid 50’s in the afternoon. East wind early, west wind late, 53% chance of rainbows.
For weather specifically directed at travel through the Gorge, please visit Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service on Facebook.
White Sprinter Van of the Day
Road and Mountain Biking
The dirt’s pretty dang amazing over on Syncline right now. You might wanna go riding. In other news, I checked Strava and didn’t see any rides on Whoopdee or Post. I betcha Post is okay by now, but someone’s going to have to go check it out today. Not me. I have to go to school. In Whoopdee news, some trail fairies when and chopped down all the overgrown brush, so when that trail dries out, it’s going to be good to go! In road biking news, today looks great. Much less east wind than yesterday. Same tomorrow, with more sun.
Upcoming Events
Coming up this morning, there’s community meditation at Flow at 8:15am, and there’s a community Hatha Yoga class at the Heartgate Sanctuary in Oak Grove at 8:30am (new later time!). There’s ping pong at the Hood River armory at 5pm, and there’s Aikido at Trinity Natural Medicine at 6pm.
Coming up Thursday night, there’s an avalanche awareness 101 class at Dog River, led by fearless ranger Jimmy T. That’s at 6:30pm. There’s community yoga at Samadhi at 6pm, Zumba at the Parkdale Community Center at 6:30pm, and Tai Chi at Our Savior Church in Bingen at 6:30pm.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
The Clymb: free membership.
Cheap gear.
Temira approves. Click to join.
