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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Finally, finally, there’s something interesting to talk about in the forecast! Wind, snow, and the possibility of this endless high pressure system falling apart. Just because it looks so nice, I added a fourth day to the graphical forecast. =)

Today starts off clear, becoming cloudy mid-morning, with a chance of trace amounts of rain or snow. Most likely we’ll see a little of both. The snow level will be 7500’ early, dropping to 4000’ around 1pm and 1500’ by 4pm. Mt. Hood wind will be NW 30-40 by 7am, going to WNW 30-40 around 1pm, swinging to NW 30-35 by 4pm, and going to N 20-30 by 7pm. Basically, it will be windy all day on Mt. Hood. =)

Wednesday looks dry, clear and cold on Mt. Hood, with N wind at 20-30 early going to E 15-20 by 10am and holding all day.

Thursday morning brings clear skies to Mt. Hood and another inversion to the valleys. It will be just below freezing at all Mt. Hood elevations early, and then as the inversion builds, the freezing level rises to 8000’ by 10am and drops back to 6500’ by 7pm. Clouds move in late, and snow starts sometime Friday morning.

Friday looks like typical Mt. Hood storm skiing. The snow level will be at 3500’ in the morning, dropping to 1500’ in the afternoon. Snow starts falling around 2am, for 1” or so by the time ski lifts are turning and another 3-4” during the day. It will be plenty windy to make nice drifts on leeward slopes: WSW 40-50 early, W 40-50 by 7am and WNW 35-45 by 4pm.

In the extended forecast, Saturday looks sunny, Sunday looks snowy (3-4”), Monday looks cloudy, Tuesday looks very snowy, possibly warming up, and Wednesday, well, let’s just say the models look warm and wet and that we should all cross our fingers that the models change.

I think we’re finally seeing the disintegration of the December Doldrums. Yay!

In wind news, the Gorge sees W 21-23 today, building easterlies tomorrow, E 30+ on Thursday and W wind on Friday.

Have an awesome day today! Happy Hanukah tonight!

Temira

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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

I sent the following note into the universe this morning:

“Dear Mother Nature: We know we complain a lot about the endless gray weather here in the Northwest in the winter. Please understand we didn’t mean to hurt your feelings and that we certainly don’t want you to change the weather. We complain because it gives us something to talk about with friends and strangers. We’d like our gray, gloomy, wet weather back now, please. Thank you for trying to make us happy. We’re truly happier soaking wet, white as ghosts, and depressed from lack of sun.”

In the meantime, we’re back to sunshine on Mt. Hood. It will stay sunny today, with the freezing level rising to 8000’ in the afternoon. The wind will be light early, going to NW 10-15 in the afternoon.

Tomorrow starts off clear, becoming high overcast, cloudy, or quite possibly foggy around 11am as a system swings by to the north. At this point, it looks like Mt. Hood will stay dry, and that’s a good thing, as our best chance of precip will come around 1pm, when it will be too warm. So, if we see anything, we’ll see very light sprinkles at 5000’. The snow level will be 6500’ at 4am, dropping to 6000’ by 1pm and 4500’ by 7pm. Windspeeeds will be NW 15-20 early, rising to WNW 25-35 by 10am and swinging to NNW 20-30 around 7pm.

Wednesday looks dry and sunny, with the freezing level at 2000’ early, dropping near the surface during the day. Wind will be NE 10-20 early going to E 20-25 by 10am.

Thursday looks sunny and warm. Next chance for snow is Friday, with 3-5” possible, probably starting out as a mix of snow and rain.

For you windsurfers and kiters, east winds build to 15-28 this afternoon. Wednesday looks like 24-28, and Thursday looks like a big east wind event.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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