GORGE WIND FORECAST
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Keep in mind that this forecast attempts to predict what the iKite/iWind sensors will read. Think like a local! All sensors are not equal. Swell reads low. Viento/Arlington/The Wall read high compared to Swell. 30mph at Rufus (The Wall sensor) is about 23-24mph at Swell. 30mph at Swell is about 35-37mph at Rufus/Viento/Arlington. Hope that helps!
SHORT-TERM gorge wind forecast
Hi friends! It’s another beautiful day in the Gorge (I’m just waiting for a beautiful sunrise as I write this), but it’s not going to be a very windy day in the Gorge, nor will it be windy in the Gorge wind forecast for a while; next chance of a 20+ mph west wind day is, well, not in the next week or so. There is a chance some of you will get out there today, Saturday…
Early pressures were 29.86/29.79/29.76 for gradients of 0.07/0.03. West wind was running around 15mph all the way from Stevenson to Arlington to start the day. During the day, troughing (cool air) is forecast to move over the area. Models disagree on what the wind will do, so let’s piece it together, together!
As the trough arrives, we’re likely to see an increase in clouds and sprinkles to Hood River or The Dalles through late morning or early afternoon. As this is happening, your best option will be Avery to Arlington for 14-17mph. After 2pm, once the weather settles in: 13-16mph from Stevenson to Rufus with under 10mph east of Rufus. River flow over the last 24 hours was 61-94kcfs, river temp is 64.6F, and high temp forecast is 59F.
RIVER FLOW FOR SITES BETWEEN AVERY (EAST OF THE DALLES) AND RUFUS: CLICK HERE FOR JOHN DAY DAM FLOW.
RIVER FLOW FOR SITES BETWEEN STEVENSON AND DOUG’S BEACH (WEST OF THE DALLES): CLICK HERE FOR THE DALLES DAM FLOW
LONGER-TERM gorge wind forecast
Sunday starts with light east wind under 10mph. Easterlies rise to 15mph at Iwash/Rooster Rock, Stevenson, and Viento for a few hours mid-morning before dropping under 5mph in the afternoon. High temp: 62 and partly cloudy.
Monday will be dead calm to start. Westerlies build to 10-13mph between Cascade Locks and the Hatch after 2pm. To the east: calm or nearly so all day. High temp: 65 and sunny in the afternoon. Tuesday’s wind will be light/variable.
A weak weather system may impact the area on Wednesday. Models do not agree on the wind outcome: the deterministic GFS wants 23-26mph. Euro ensemble members are having nothing to do with that – only 20% give us gusts above 20mph. Stronger EASTerlies are forecast on Thursday as we enter another round of warm, dry weather. There’s some indication of several days of strong-enough east wind following that. Okay, enough for today. Hope to see you on the Nch’i Wana soon!
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JONES BEACH, SAUVIE ISLAND, & COAST FORECAST
Wind northerly unless otherwise indicated. For coast, it’s North/Central/South with the “central” at approximately Florence. Swell forecast from NWS for central coast. Jones: westerly unless otherwise stated. Sauvie Island: northerly unless otherwise stated.
Coast Saturday: LTNW/LTNW/N25-30, NW swell 7′ @ 10 seconds and W 4′ @ 22. Sunday: 20/20/30, NW 7′ @ 9 and W 4′ @ 21. Monday: N10-15/N10-15/N25-30, NW 5′ @ 8 and W 5′ @ 17. Jones Saturday: LTV. Sunday/Monday: LTW. Sauvie Island Saturday: LTV. Sunday: 14-17. Monday: LTN.
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy sky today. Temps start near 50 and rise to the upper 50s. Scattered sprinkles until 2pm. Moderate westerlies. 49% chance of rainbows. Sunday will be partly cloudy. Temps start in the upper 30s and rise to the low 60s. Light easterlies. No rainbows. Monday will be partly Nothing then sunny. Temps start in the mid 30s and rise to the mid 60s. Calm wind in the morning. Light westerlies in the afternoon. No rainbows.
BIKE TRAILS INFO
NEXT WORK PARTY: October 25th and November 8th in Post Canyon with the HRATS.
CLOSED TRAILS: Anything south of the 44 Road due to the Grasshopper Fire / Forest Closure Order: for example – Boulder Lakes, Gunsight, Gumjuwac, Lookout Mountain, 450, Fifteenmile.
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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 Saturday morning, and enough cloud cover was present most places to prevent most of us from frost this morning. No !CE was spotted yet this morning (7:47am) either anywhere in the Gorge. We’re more likely to see wider-spread frost on Sunday, and most of us will drop below 36F for a chance of frost on Monday morning. More on that later. We may have a few sprinkles today, and then the weather stays (mostly dry) until the 17th or so, when about 50% of the ensemble members offer up at least some chance of rain. Nothing too exciting is forecast in the next couple of weeks. Of note is the date of the early measurable snowfall in Hood River: 10/29/1935 with similar snowfall in 1991.
Saturday will bring some intermittent sprinkles as far east as The Dalles until 11am and to Hood River until early afternoon. Know what else Saturday brought? The first hard-as-fuck frost in Glenwood: 23 degrees there this morning! Know what people were doing in the face of that hard-as-fuck frost? Fucking hard, of course!
In Parkdale, the frost advisory was canceled by NWS as clouds allowed temps to stay at 40+. Rest of today: partly cloudy sky. High temps: 56 in Stevenson, 59 in Hood River, 63 in The Dalles and also 63 in Pasco. West wind will be around 15mph from Stevenson to Arlington this morning. Afternoon wind holds around 15mph. Overnight, we’ll have 15-20mph northerly wind east of The Dalles as dry, colder air slides in from Canada.
On Sunday morning (Seahawks Day!), we’ll have partly cloudy sky with dewpoints of 26 (away from the Nch’i Wana and at elevation) to 37 (lowlands). Partly cloudy sky starts the day with a few sprinkles possible as far east as The Dalles around sunrise. 850mb temps will be down around 0C, and wind will be light easterly. Given the partly cloudy start, frost is far from certain. Glenwood: probably. Goldendale and Centerville and Dufur: probably. Upper Valley – depends on the cloud cover… Afternoon brings partly cloudy sky and highs of 62 in Stevenson, 62 in Hood River, 65 in The Dalles, and 61 in Pasco. Wind will be light easterly early, E 15mph near Iwash (it’s not a rooster, it’s a dick) Rock, Stevenson, Home Valley, and Viento midday and 5-10mph later. East of The Dalles, NE wind at 10-15mph sticks around into the early evening.
That NE wind dries out the air and allows the sky to (mostly) clear for Monday morning. East of The Dalles, expect partly cloudy sky to start. Morning wind: dead calm, also helpful for forming frost and also helpful for forming Nothing. Dewpoints: 21-32. Upper Valley: 29-33 degrees. Glenwood: 18-22. Trout Lake, Snowden, Mill A, Sevenmile, Appleton, High Prairie: 27-31. Near the river: 34-38 thanks to a Nothing cloud. In other words, if you are away from the Nch’i Wana and above 500′ and not cloudy (the sky, not your brain), you’re likely to see at least a light frost with temps under 36 on Monday morning. High temps range from 63 to 68. West wind rises to 10-15mph west of Hood River in the afternoon and stays calmish to the east.
Tuesday looks warm – 66-70 degrees – and dry with light/variable wind and plenty of sunshine. It’s possible we could see a weak weather system and more clouds on Wednesday, but rain is very unlikely. Starting Thursday, warm, dry weather takes hold for a while… That’s it for now. Safe travels. -TATAS
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