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10/5 Forecast

Good morning!

This week’s sponsor is Cascade Acupuncture Center. During the month of October, Cascade Acupuncture Center will offer all Happy Hour Acupuncture treatments in the Hood River Clinic on a sliding scale fee of $15-$35, and will donate 100% to the Hood River Save Our Library Committee – www.saveourlibrary.net. Happy Hour Treatments, offered M-W-F-Sa in Hood River, are 40 minute focus treatments to address stress, boost energy and immune system, and increase your overall happiness. Call 541-387-4325 to schedule.

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Hello everyone, and thank you for the day off on Monday! Hopefully all of you made it on the water somewhere. For the first time in almost 6 months, I took a day off and did no work at all, other than wandering through the woods for a few hours gathering mushrooms.

Although we might see some lingering west winds early Tuesday morning, those will be gone by midday as offshore flow increases through the Gorge. If you’re looking to windsurf or kite today, your best chance is at the coast. 15-20 north, 20-25 central, and 25-35 south with a 7 foot west swell at 10 seconds.

Coast winds die off Wednesday as the offshore flow increases. Stay at the coast for excellent surfing in the offshore wind, or head back to the Gorge for easterlies in the 25-28 range at Stevenson and 28-32 range at Rooster. Don’t you just love the new iWindsurf sensor at Rooster Rock? It’s going to improve forecasting by 1000%, and it’s going to make for great entertainment this winter.

Easterlies die off Thursday morning, and westerlies of the light sort return by Thursday afternoon.

For off-the-water entertainment this week, there’s Kayak Polo from 8:00-9:30 at the Hood River Pool on Wednesday night (yeah, I know that’s on-the-water entertainment), Business After Hours at Cascade Acupuncture Center on Thursday from 5-7pm, and Interesting at the Mosier School at 7pm on Friday. Interesting was great fun last year, and I highly recommend everyone go this year. It’s only $5.

Have a awesome day today!

Temira

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10/3 forecast

Good morning!

This week’s sponsor is the
Crossfit Hood River, a fun and challenging workout that will get your butt in shape for the upcoming epic ski season. If you haven’t tried Crossfit, you can head to the Crossfit Gym for a free class at any time to check it out. What have you got to lose? Exactly… nothing… so get up there this week and give it a try. Your legs will thank you when the powder starts falling.

We’ve got a bit of a complicated weather picture today with a frontal system moving across the Cascades during the day. The 5am gradient was at .14 from Portland to The Dalles with another .05 out east. That’s a really solid start for this time of year, so you can expect 25-29 from Hood River to Mosier this morning, filling in from Lyle out to Arlington as the front passes this afternoon.

As the front passes, the wind may get horribly gusty and die off near Hood River. If that happens while you’re at the Hatch or Sandbar, don’t panic. It just means you’re going to have to shift east to get the goods.

Coming up tomorrow, a very strong high pressure system builds off the coast. This is going to keep the west winds going for one last day before calmer, summer-like weather and glassy conditions return to the Gorge on Tuesady (and the wind shifts to the coast). We’ll start off with 18-22 near Hood River, but steady westerlies in the mid twenties from Stevenson down to Mosier look very likely tomorrow afternoon.

If you’re a surfer, today and tomorrow look good at the coast. Light north wind combines with an 11 foot swell at 14 seconds. Webcams yesterday showed big, clean waves, so get out there and get some. Tomorrow looks good too, with light wind in the morning and a dropping 8 foot swell.

Boaters, the White Salmon is between 1.6 and 1.7 feet and the Klickitat’s at 727 cfs.

If you’re headed out into the woods, don’t forget that rifle hunting season started yesterday. Wearing blaze orange and leaving your dog at home would be very, very good ideas.

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 button at the bottom of the page. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list ‘til May 2011, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors.