MT HOOD WEATHER FORECAST
Hey skiers and snowboarders! Anything-but-boring is our Mt Hood weather forecast for the next several days. Spectacular sunshine is on tap for Tuesday. That’s followed by thunderstorms and heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon, mixed precip on Thursday, and a return to snowfall Friday morning. Models then hint at dry weather for Saturday and rain or mixed precip on Sunday. Plan accordingly!
today’s mt hood weather
Tuesday looks glorious if your version of “glorious” is warm and sunny weather. Expect above-freezing weather on the slopes all day. That said, radiational cooling refroze the snow last night. It’s hard to say if recent rain transformed it far enough towards granular to keep it from getting sticky early. Get on it early for best results. The free air freezing level will be 10,000′ this morning, 12,000′ this afternoon, and 11,000′ after midnight. Sky: clear in the morning and partly high overcast later. Temps start in the low 40s at 5000′ and rise to the upper 50s. Sunscreen and t-shirts are in order. Wind will be light southerly all day.
wednesday’s mt hood weather chaos
Wednesday kicks off partly cloudy and warm. All hell breaks loose in the afternoon as the atmosphere destabilizes. Best thunderstorm chances will actually be in the Willamette Valley, but Mt. Hood won’t be exempt from thunderstorms. It’s likely lifts will go down in the afternoon due to lightning. Weather deets: the snow level will be around 11,000′ in the morning and 10,000′ in the afternoon. Overnight, as a cold front moves in, it drops to 5500′. It’s hard to say how much rain/hail the mountain will pick up during the day – available moisture will be plentiful, and forcing to squeeze the moisture out of the clouds will also be present. Let’s just call it “rainy” switching to “snainy” overnight. Temps start in the mid 40s and fall to 33F or so overnight. Wind: south at 10-20 until the thunderstorms hit. Then it’s anyone’s guess, but generally southerly and relatively strong.
thursday’s mt hood weather
Lesser instability continues on Thursday. The snow level will be 5500′ early, 4500′ briefly in the morning, 6000′ in the afternoon, and 3500′ after midnight. Call it a quarter inch water equivalent (WE) mixed precip during the day followed by 0.5” WE rain-then-snow overnight for a couple inches of dense new snow. Wind will be S 30-55 in the morning, S 15-30 in the afternoon, and SW 25-45 after midnight.
extended mt hood weather forecast
Light snowfall persists throughout the day and night Friday with about 4-5” new. Saturday looks dry. Sunday’s forecast currently looks warm and wet. Start making carpool plans for the mountain for Saturday – when the forecast looks like this, the bulk of the skier visits will happen on the nice day, and that can result in the resorts filling the parking lots. All righty – that’s your excitement for today. Enjoy the awesome sunny weather today before tomorrow’s chaos. See you on the snow!
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GORGE WIND FORECAST
Hi friends! It sure is glassy on the Columbia in front of my house this morning! Models aren’t optimistic about reliable wind over the next five days or so – best chance is easterlies today. We’ll see those build to 25mph near Iwash and 20-25mph at Stevenson late morning. In the afternoon, the slow decline begins; the day finishes up with 15mph at both Iwash and Stevenson. River flow over the last 24 hours was 131-171kcfs, river temp is a balmy 45.7F, and high temp forecast is 72F. This puts us over 100F for the first time this year for the water + air temp equation!
Wednesday starts with easterlies at 25mph at Iwash and 20mph at Stevenson. By early afternoon, the wind drops to 15mph. As a weak low slides in to the east side, the wind will turn westerly… but… other factors – moisture, heat, wind shear – all combine to set off potentially severe thunderstorms. This is not the day to test your luck by riding thunderstorm squalls. Lightning could be plentiful. High temp: 73F. Thursday brings light and variable wind: westerly early, easterly midday, and westerly in the afternoon, all under 15mph. High temp: 58F with plenty of rainy periods. Westerlies of some sort are possible on Friday, but there’s no clear indication in the models of wind strength. Saturday: light/variable. Sunday: easterly and rainy as a deep low pressure system passes offshore. Have a great day in the warm sunshine today!
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Sunshine this morning adds a few high clouds later. Temps start in the mid 40s and rise to the low 70s. Light easterlies. No rainbows. Wednesday will be partly high overcast to start with thunderstorms and rain from mid-afternoon on. Temps start near 50 and rise to the low 70s. Light easterlies early. Variable and potentially strong later. 89% chance of rainbows. Thursday will be showery with thunderstorms possible but way less likely than Wednesday. Temps start in the mid 40s and rise to the upper 50s. Light and variable wind. 99% chance of rainbows.
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HYPERLOCAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE COLUMBIA GORGE
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Good morning, neighbors! Holy shit is it a nice day out there. It’s a great day to get some manure for the garden assuming your poop pile isn’t behind a mud bog. If so… just garden instead! We’ll have a beautiful, sunny day today followed by an impressive round of thunderstorms tomorrow. After that – back to rain west of The Dalles all the way through Saturday morning.
glenwood this morning
Glenwood: 35 degrees and sunny this morning. I know you were waiting with bated breath for that!
today
On tap for the rest of us: a warm day. High clouds add texture to the sky, but the filtered sun should take the lowlands to the low 70s. Hood River’s record high today is 74. We’ll be close to breaking that record. Wind today will be light most places and 20-25mph near Iwash (dong) Rock and Stevenson. If the high clouds set up just right this evening, we’ll have a spectacular sunset to finish off a spectacular day.
wednesday
Lingering high clouds Wednesday morning set us up for a terrific sunrise. Daytime heating combines with southerly flow from an offshore low, abundant available moisture (PWAT 1.0ish), big wind shear, and instability from lowland heating to set us up for what the Extreme Forecast Index is calling 1.0 instability. What’s that mean? More instability than any time in the last 20-30 years. If you want to see the most chaos from this setup, head to the Valley of Willies (Willamette Valley). But there’s probably no need – we should get plenty of excitement around here starting mid-afternoon. Prior to that: a likely record high-low in the morning. Forecast low: 50F. Record high-low: 46F. Forecast high: 73F, but we may not make that if clouds build quickly. Record high: 74F Expect downpours, large hail, lightning, and strong outflow wind with these storms.
extended gorge weather forecast
Rain coupled with lesser instability continues on Thursday and into Friday with max temps slowly falling: 58F for Thursday, 54F on Friday. Rain will be widespread through Thursday morning. After that, it mostly stays west of Mosier. Wind will be light/variable on Thursday and westerly after a calm start on Friday. A dry period of weather is forecast Saturday morning into midday Sunday, and then we’re right back into The Wetness. Safe travels. -TATAS
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