GORGE WIND FORECAST
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SHORT-TERM gorge wind forecast
Hi friends! It was good spending time on the water with you yesterday! The swell was so clean and beautiful, and the weed slalom course was… interesting! We’ll be spending more time on the Nch’i Wana over the next week or so – most days have a forecast of 17-20mph or more. Biggest days will be Saturday and next Tuesday. Let’s talk about the deets of Friday’s Gorge wind forecast, shall we?
Friday started with pressures of 29.99/29.90/29.85 for gradients of 0.09 and 0.05. Offshore, there’s a low pressure system happily spinning away, and there are just a few marine clouds in the metro area. That’s not an ideal setup – the Gorge tends to under-perform models when there’s a low off the coast. Even so… dawn patrol was 17-20mph at Viento and the Swell zone. Everywhere else: under 10mph to start the day. With plenty of gradient in place, we’ll see the wind quickly build to 19-22mph from Stevenson to Mosier.
Thanks to a solid thermal gradient across the Cascades, westerlies pick up most places this afternoon. Exception: Stevenson to Hood River, which probably will drop to gusty 16-19mph. From Mosier to Avery, you’ll find 20-23mph this afternoon. Rufus: 17-20mph. Models hint at a late-day surge: 20-23mph from Stevenson to Doug’s with 25-28mph from Avery to Arlington (keeping in mind that those sensors read high compared to Swell – 23mph at Swell is about the same as 28mph at Rufus). River flow over the last 24 hours was 106-160kcfs, river temp is 71.2F, and high temp forecast is 89F in Hood River and nearly 100F east of The Dalles.
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
Saturday sees that offshore low pressure system make a move towards BC. This reinforces cool air on the west side. Marine clouds actually increase into midday west of Mosier(ish) and linger. Early wind will be 10-13mph west of The Dalles and 18-21mph from Avery to Arlington. We’ll see a slow build into mid-morning, when pretty much all locations from Stevenson to Arlington will have gusty 19-22mph. For the afternoon… working backwards from east to west, we have… 24-27mph from Threemile to Boardman, 28-31mph from Mosier to Arlington, and gusty 22-25mph from Viento to Hood River. Stevenson likely remains cloudy with gusty 15-20. Strongest wind will be late in the day, after 2pm, as that low pressure system moves inland and reinforces cool air and clouds west of the Cascade Crest. High temps: 79 in Hood River and 90 in the desert.
Sunday starts with light westerlies, under 10mph, perhaps under 5mph. Afternoon wind rises to gusty 14-17mph from Stevenson to Hood River with gusty 18-22mph from Lyle to Rufus and 11-14mph near Arlington. Highs: 80-91. Monday looks like 17-20mph, strongest near Hood River. . Tuesday starts in the 15-20mph range. A weather system in the afternoon nudges the wind up to 25-30mph, strongest east of Mosier. Beyond Tuesday: lighter wind is forecast, bur probably still plenty for foil sporting of some sort. 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 Friday: LTW/LTW/LTS, NW swell 4′ at 9 seconds and SW 2′ @ 14. Saturday: SW20/SW15-20/LTS, S 4′ @ 5 and NW 3′ @ 8. Sunday: LTSW/LTSW/LTN, NW 3′ @ 11 and SW 2′ @ 21. Jones Friday: 21-24. Sauvie Island Friday: 11-14. Saturday: SW 10. Sunday: 8-11.
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Friday will be sunny. Temps start in the upper 60s and rise to the upper 80s. Muggy. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Saturday will be partly cloudy then cloudy then partly cloudy. Temps start in the upper 50s and rise to the upper 70s. Moderate to moderately strong westerlies. No rainbows. Sunday will be cloudy then clear. Temps start in the upper 50s and rise to 80. Light westerlies early. Moderate later. No 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! Temps bump up for TGIF day and fall into the “pleasant” (per TATAS) zone through Tuesday. After that: some hint of warming in the forecast. Outlier members of the Euro ensemble make it HOT in The Dalles, but most ensemble members are more interested in 95ish for The Dalles by the end of the week. Adjust your own expectations for your location accordingly.
Friday started in the upper 50s to mid 60s for most of us, but there were a few 70+ degree readings to start the day. Glenwood: 47 degrees, which really makes me want to set up camp in Glenwood and sleep there every night. Folks in Glenwood don’t want TATAS doing that – they don’t want the word to get out about the excellent sleeping conditions there. Elsewhere in the world, our friends (threatened by the Trump administration) will mostly need AC for a good night’s sleep:
Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran: 114, sunny, 14% humidity
Havana, Cuba: 79, partly cloudy, 86% humidity
Muscat, Oman: 92, partly cloudy, 66% humidity
Caracas, Venezuela: 71, partly cloudy, 80% humidity
Nuuk, Greenland: 47, cloudy with rain, 90% humidity
Gaza City: 88, sunny, 59% humidity
Ottawa, Canada: 63, cloudy, 77% humidity
Weather for Friday in the Gorge sees lots of sunshine with a few pop-up mid-level clouds this afternoon. Temps rise to 86 in Stevenson, 89 in Hood River, 97 in The Dalles, and 100 in Pasco. West wind rises to 20 mph west of Mosier and 25mph from Mosier to Arlington this afternoon. East of Mosier (ish), the humidity falls this afternoon and combines with the wind for increasing fire danger.
A red flag warning (high fire danger) is posted for Saturday for a combo of dry conditions, decreased humidity, and rather strong west wind, all due to a low moving towards BC. It’s not just us experiencing extreme fire conditions: pretty much all of eastern WA, eastern OR, parts of northern California, most of Montana, and parts of southern California/Arizona are also experiencing extreme fire danger. 6500 lightning strikes in the PNW with the last round of thunderstorms did. Not. Help. Morning temps Saturday will be plus-or-minus 55-60 degrees. A partly cloudy start west of Hood River quickly adds more clouds mid-morning west of Mosier. The addition of clouds is a blatant ad for life west of Wyeth, where there are actually summer clouds some of the time! At least some of those clouds linger into afternoon.
To the east of Mosier or Rowena on Saturday, (it’s always hard to peg it, but pegging is always good!) clear sky lingers all day. West wind starts at 15-20mph all the way from Stevenson to Arlington’s triangle. Afternoon: 25mph west of Mosier and 25-35mph from Mosier to Boardman. Please secure your trailer chains, don’t pitch cigarette butts, skip the mowing, and save the Tannerite for another day. Don’t. Start. A. Fire. High temps: 76/79/85/94.
After Saturday’s weather system moves through, we’ll start Sunday quite and peaceful (skip the Tannerite here too – let people sleep in!). Early morning brings very light wind all through the Gorge with temps in the 50-60 range. Areas west of Hood River start cloudy. The rest of us: clear. Afternoon will be sunny everywhere with west wind at 15-20mph between Stevenson and Rufus and 10-15mph at Arlington’s Triangle. Highs: 79/80/87/91.
Similar weather is forecast Monday. Tuesday looks a touch cooler and quite a bit windier. Models indicate some sort of warming trend for the latter half of next week. No rain is forecast, and as of now, there aren’t any signs of another round of thunderstorms. That’s good. We’ll pass on the lightning until winter, if that’s okay! Safe travels. -TATAS
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