GORGE WIND FORECAST
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today’s gorge wind forecast
Hi friends! Fun riding on the river with you yesterday! Wasn’t the swell amazing? It’s baffling to me how it can be so good this far into the low-current season, but it is, yay! Speaking of seasons… now it’s fall, and the weather is about to turn quite active. Any wind we see in the next five days or so involves moving pieces (lows moving around, frontal systems passing through) which will make it gusty, unreliable, and difficult to predict. Even so, my job is to give you a Gorge wind forecast, so I’ll try!
Looking at Thursday… not much to see here. Offshore low pressure has us under cloudy, drizzly sky. While we do have west gradient and light westerlies this morning, models think the offshore low will keep anything more from developing. The high-res model even turns the wind offshore this evening. Let’s call it light/variable or light westerly and leave it there. River flow over the last 24 hours was 70-99kcfs, river temp is 66.6F (really!), and high temp forecast is 68F for Hood River with drizzle in the morning and mostly cloudy sky later.
RIVER FLOW FOR SITES BETWEEN AVERY (EAST OF THE DALLES) AND RUFUS: CLICK HERE FOR JOHN DAY DAM FLOW.
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tomorrow’s gorge wind forecast
On Friday, a weather system swings through. This gives us a brief morning burst of maybe 18-22 from Viento to the Hatch. The wind drops to 11-14mph west of Rufus midday and perhaps rises to 18-22mph east of Rufus to Boardman. Models suggest Rufus to Arlington could see gusty, brief mid-20s in the afternoon before falling off behind the passage of a system. Stevenson to Avery might rise to gusty 16-19mph in the afternoon as well. However, we’re also looking at drizzle in the afternoon west of Hood River and east of Biggs. High temp: 64F with lots of clouds.
extended Gorge wind forecast
Saturday has a huge range of possible outcomes. Generally speaking, offshore high pressure settles in behind coast/inland troughing, which is a decent setup, However… moving parts complicate the picture. Keep an eye on areas east of The Dalles for at shot at mid-20s. As of this morning, models have the strongest wind arriving after dark. During the day, once again, rain will interfere. We’ve got shower potential for the eastern Gorge from late morning on. Not a great setup by any means. On Sunday, another low drops down along the coast, but its exact path is uncertain. This leaves a lot of uncertainty in the Gorge wind forecast as well.
With the weather this active, the deeper we get into the future, the more uncertainty there will be, so I’ll leave it here for now. On a positive note, Hood River already picked up almost a tenth of an inch of rain. That’s going to improve biking conditions, especially for trails like Whoopdee and Syncline where trails are not under the canopy. Enjoy!
JONES BEACH, SAUVIE ISLAND, & COAST FORECAST
CURRENTLY ON VACATION AND ONLY ON AS-NEEDED BASIS.
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Drizzle this morning and clouds later. Temps start in the low 50s and rise to the upper 60s. Light westerlies. 78% chance of rainbows. Friday will be mostly cloudy with intermittent light drizzle possible. Temps start in the upper 40s and rise to the mid 60s. Moderate westerlies. 83% chance of rainbows. Saturday will be drizzly. Temps start in the mid 40s and rise to the upper 50s. Light westerlies. 94% chance of rainbows.
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HYPERLOCAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE COLUMBIA GORGE
THE DALLES, HOOD RIVER, WHITE SALMON, TROUT LAKE, STEVENSON, CASCADE LOCKS, PARKDALE, ODELL, HUSUM, BZ, MILL A, WILLARD, GOLDENDALE, RUFUS, ARLINGTON, boardman
Good morning, neighbors! IT’S RAINING AT MY HOUSE! It might be raining at your home too, especially if you’re east of Hood River. Over the next several days, more rain is on the way. You can take a look at the 50th percentile map of the ECMWF ensembles to get a rough idea of how much rain is coming, but know that there’s still quite a bit of range in the possibilities; The Dalles, for example, has an intraquartile range (25%-75% percentile) of 0.5” to 0.9” by next Tuesday. Cool. That’s a lot of rain!
Glenwood this morning
This morning started out cloudy everywhere, even in Glenwood, where the morning low was 47F. I don’t have a rain total for Glenwood, but Trout Lake was reporting 0.18”-0.4”, White Salmon 0.14”, Grass Valley 0.25”, The Dalles 0.09”, and Goldendale 0.05”.
Today’s Gorge weather forecast
Drizzle tapers off by noon or so and leaves us with high clouds. Temps rise to the upper 60s in Hood River, low 70s in The Dalles, and mid 70s out in the desert. Not much wind is forecast – just light westerlies under 10mph all day.
Friday’s Gorge weather forecast
Another cloudy day is in the cards on Friday. After an upper 40s start, temps rise to 64F (west), 67F (The Dalles), and 74F (desert. Sometime mid-morning, a bit of drizzle wraps around an offshore low and infiltrated the Gorge from the SSW. Areas north of Mt. Hood are likely to be rain-shadowed; drizzle is most likely west of Hood River and east of Mosier. This includes South Wasco and Sherman counties, which won’t be rain shadowed and will be wet. Wind on Friday looks like 15mph from Stevenson to Arlington early morning. It bounces around during the day and eventually settles at 15-20mph west of The Dalles and 20-25mph from The Dalles to the Arlington Triangle.
Extended Gorge weather forecast
Intermittent drizzle is in the cards again on Saturday, but this time the weather will be cooler. Morning lows will be in the mid 40s along the river. Afternoon highs rise to 59F (west, COLD!) and 64F (The Dalles and areas to the east). Up in the mountains, the snow level bounces around between 4000′ and 5500′, giving us our first chance at pass-level snowflakes. Know who’s not a snowflake? Those people dancing around in Portland in inflatable costumes protesting in a humorous and kind and light-hearted way. Know who else isn’t a snowflake? Anyone ballsy enough to ride in the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride at 2:30pm on Sunday in Portland in 50-something degree temps and drizzle. DO WHAT IT TAKES TO STOP AUTHORITARIANISM. MILITARY DOES NOT BELONG IN OUR STREETS!
Sunday and Monday: continued chilly, drizzly weather. The snow level falls to 4000′ and stays there, making snowy pass conditions likely, especially starting Sunday afternoon when orographic effects will enhance snowfall near Mt. Hood. PLEASE LET IT SNOW ENOUGH FOR ME TO GO SKIING! Safe travels. -TATAS
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MT HOOD SNOW FORECAST
CURRENTLY ON VACATION. WILL RETURN SOMETIME BEFORE THE START OF SKI SEASON AT MEADOWS, TIMBERLINE AND SKIBOWL. SAME GOES FOR THE NORDIC SKIING SEASON AT MEADOWS AND TEACUP!
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