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Random Morning Thoughts

I arrived home last night to single-digit temps and no power. Many thanks to Pacific Power for getting my electricity turned back on within 90 minutes. That would have been a cold night.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Wednesday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

Today starts off clear on Mt. Hood, but clouds will move in midday and flurries will start this afternoon. Temps will be in the teens to 20’s with NW wind increasing to 15-20 by midday. No significant accumulation.

Tuesday looks cloudy, with flurries all day long. There’s not a lot of water value (WV) with this weather system, but 1-2” of new snow is possible. Not likely, but possible. The snow level will be 0-1000′, depending on where you live. Wind will be NW 25 early and NW 15 late.

Wednesday sees a significant change in the weather on Mt. Hood. It looks mostly clear, but it also looks warm, with the free air freezing level rising from 1000′ early to 7000+ in the afternoon. Wind on Wednesday will be NW 10 early, W 10 midday and SW 20 overnight.

Thursday starts off cloudy with temps in the low 30’s on Mt. Hood. Models currently show temps of around 2° C at 5000′ as the precip, currently predicted to be .5-1.5” WV total, moves in late in the afternoon, signifying that this system may start with rain. I’m hoping those models are incorrect, and that we’ll see wet snow instead. Once again, we’ll have to wait a day or two and see where the models end up.

Plain Old Local Weather

Hmph. It’s really cold again. Warmer than yesterday’s 1, but still really cold. In my ideal world, there would always be two digits in the temp, and never a negative sign in front of those two digits.

We’ll see temps warm up quite a bit today. Models suggest we’ll get over freezing, just over freezing, but I wouldn’t place any bets on that, especially as models show the Nothing fog layer coalescing during the day, leaving us without sun.

We’ll see flurries starting this afternoon and continuing through tomorrow. Or maybe we’ll get freezing drizzle. Or maybe flurries. Or… you get the picture. NOAA’s discussion this morning discussed and discussed and discussed the precip type for tonight and tomorrow. Anyway, it looks like a few hundredths of an inch of something will fall today and tomorrow with temps near freezing.

Wednesday looks dry and sub-freezing, as the wind switches back to easterly and brings colder air into the Gorge. That’s easy. Thursday’s the tough day. It now looks like the precip will move in late Thursday afternoon. Temps will be above freezing at higher elevations, meaning if it’s below freezing here in the HR Valley, we’re going to see freezing rain. Crossing fingers…

Gorge Wind Forecast

Gradients have already turned around, and at 5am, there was W .02 between Portland and The Dalles. Now, I’m not saying you should go windsurfing or kiting today, as it’s about 10 degrees outside. I am saying we’ll see west wind in the upper teens near HR today. Tomorrow brings westerlies in the low teens. The wind switches back to E 26-30 on Wednesday.

Road and Mountain Biking

You people were out biking over the weekend. You people are crazy. It’s ski season. Come play at Meadows with me.

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Events – email me if I’ve missed any outdoor-related events

Tonight is indoor Ultimate Frisbee at 8pm at the Hood River armory. Coming up Thursday, the ski movie/documentary McConkey plays at Andrew’s at 6pm and 8pm. Proceeds from the film go to a fund set up for Shane McConkey’s family.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Random Morning Thoughts

I am writing this forecast on the employee bus to Meadows, and I am freezing my butt off. I bet it’s under 40 degrees in here. My fingers on the keyboard are very cold. My toes in my snow boots are cold. At least the cupcakes I baked this morning are also cold… Peter C. will be happy.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Tuesday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It’s cold on Mt. Hood this morning, but not as cold as it is in Eugene, where it was 8 below zero. Or Odell, where it’s -3. Or Hood River, where it was 1. Expect highs in the low double-digits (blazing hot) today on Mt. Hood with increasing and hard-to-predict north wind.

Tomorrow starts with high clouds over the mountain, with flurries for much of the day and less than .1” water value (WV) accumulation for 1” or so of new. Maybe 2” by Tuesday morning, if we’re lucky. Temps will be in the low 20’s and the wind will be NW 20ish all day.

Cloudy weather and light snow flurries continue on Tuesday with temps in the mid to upper 20’s with NW wind at 30 all day.

Wednesday sees temps rise right around freezing on Mt. Hood with no precip. Things get interesting Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as several wet storms move in with freezing levels fluctuating between 4000′ and 6500′. Let’s wait a bit and see how things shake out before we start calling r**n for Mt. Hood. Why? Because rain on the ski resorts doesn’t make anyone happy.

Plain Old Local Weather

We set a record low temp for yesterday. The previous record was 9 degrees. I’m not sure what the temp was at 11:59pm yesterday, but I’m pretty sure it was below that, because it was 11 when I went to bed at 8pm.

We started today with a low of 1 in Hood River, but the record low of -10 still stands. Expect very cold weather today as mid-level fog/clouds keep the full power of Sol from warming the air. If you’d like to be warmer, and you’d like to feel the sun on your clothes (not your skin – it’s too cold for that) head to Mt. Hood, where it was 4 degrees at the base and 8 degrees at 7300′ this morning.

Tomorrow’s temps in the Gorge will likely remain below freezing as the inversion cloud forms, dropping light but continual snowfall on us all day. As a weak weather system moves in midday, we’ll see more snow, maybe an inch or two through Tuesday morning.

Tuesday looks like another round of inverted temps, keeping us in fog and flurries.

This weather system is going to break with heavy precipitation early Thursday morning. If the timing stays as currently predicted, we’ll likely see a period of freezing rain in the Gorge and Parkdale before a switch to rain in the afternoon.

Gorge Wind Forecast

According to the models, we’ll see east wind at 21-24 today and west wind at 21-24 tomorrow. I’m not sure I’m buying westerlies that strong, but let’s go with light west wind tomorrow and Tuesday.

Road and Mountain Biking

Are you out of your mind? It’s 1 degree out. And snowing.

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Events – email me if I’ve missed any outdoor-related events

There’s a winter holiday concert at Columbia Center for the Arts this evening. Aaron Mayer is at the Hood River Inn in a fundraiser for the United Way tonight. And the Seahawks are playing the 49’ers at 1:25pm. Go ‘Hawks!

Have an awesome day today!

Temira