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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday

Good morning!

It does look like the precip’s done for today on Mt. Hood, with cloudy skies becoming partly cloudy. The freezing level was around 5000’ at 5am, and will rise to 10000’ by 4pm. Wind will be SW 15-20, rising to SW 30-35 late in the afternoon.

Tomorrow starts off clear, with an inversion building over the lowlands and clouds moving in around 4pm. The freezing level will be 10,000’+ in the morning, falling to 6500’ by 10pm and 5000’ by 1pm. It will start raining on Mt. Hood around 7pm, with .3” or so before the rain switches to snow around 1am. Wind will be SW 25-30 early, rising to SW 35-45 in the afternoon and SW 40-50 overnight.

That rain switches to snow early Thursday morning, for 3-4” by 7am and another 2” during the day in orographic snow flurries. The snow level will be 4000’ at 4am, falling to 1500’ by 7am and 500’ or so by 4pm. Winds will be WSW 40-45 early, becoming W 40-45 by 7am, WNW 30-40 at 10am and NW 20-25 around 4pm.

Friday looks clear and cold with the freezing level around 500’ in the morning, rising to 5000’ with temperatures hovering just around freezing. Winds will be NW 10-15 in the morning going to W 15-20 in the afternoon.

At this point, the weekend is looking sunny on Mt. Hood. Coming up this weekend, there’s free acupuncture at Gorge Community Acupuncture on Saturday. On Sunday, Teacup Nordic has the annual Teacup Tea Party (not to be confused with the political Tea Party – this event is not funded by the Koch brothers). Also on Sunday, it’s my birthday. Very important stuff.

Have a great day today!

Temira

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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Good morning!

If any of you out there can put some high pressure off the coast, directing the jet stream up towards Alaska and then back down to us, I’d really appreciate it. The current storm track isn’t ideal for producing powder on Mt. Hood.

Today starts off partly cloudy, quickly becoming cloudy, with precip starting around 1pm. The freezing level will be at 7000’ or so early, dropping to 4500’ by 1pm or so. At this point, with the temps around 33° at upper ski resort elevations, we’ll probably see this system come in as wet snow, rather than as rain. We’ll see .3-.4” water value for 2-3” of heavy new snow. Winds today will be increasing to SSW 30-40 by 7am, and SW 40-45 by 1pm.

Snow ends around 1am on Tuesday, for partly cloudy skies early, becoming cloudy by 4pm with no precip. The freezing level will be 3500’ early, rising to 7000’ by 10am and 10000’ by 1pm. Wind tomorrow will be SW 20-25 all day.

Wednesday starts off clear, becoming cloudy, with precip starting around 5pm. At this point, it’s looking like this will start as rain, but the models are being quite inconsistent about precip amounts, with one showing .25” and one showing 2”. Not very helpful, right? Anyway, the freezing level will be 10k early, dropping to 9000’ by 4pm, 6000’ by 7pm and 5500’ by 10pm. So, call it rain in unknown quantities until midnight or so.

The rain switches to snow sometime early Thursday morning, when the snow level falls to 3500’ by 4am and 1500’ by 7am. We’ll get a few inches of snow before 9am, and then another .5” water value after 10am for 4-5” of new snow. Wind on Thursday will be W 30-35 in the morning, going to WNW 30 in the afternoon.

If you want to go windsurfing or kiting, today is your day, with huge east wind continuing at Stevenson and Rooster.

Have a great day today!

Temira

p.s. If you find this report useful, entertaining, or just want to recognize all the hard work that goes into it, please take the time to make a donation by clicking on the link below. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list ‘til January 2013, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors during the summer season (and the winter if I get off my bum and get some!). If you don’t PayPal, you can send a donation to PO Box 841 in Hood River, 97031.