The Gorge is my Gym

Good morning!

First off, today’s fun stuff:

1. A mushroom gathering seminar, supposedly free. Meet at the Stevenson end of Bridge of the Gods at 10am.
2. Flip fest 2009. Come flip off Craig Sawyer and help with the wine harvest at Wind River Cellars. All day.
3. Waterfront Park weeding party. Donuts, coffee and weeding at the HR waterfront park. 10am-noon
4. Telemark movie viewing. 7pm at Dog River for Flakes, a Powderwhore movie.

Second, the forecast.

The cold, dry air associated with this high pressure system slipped a little far west overnight for our needs. We still have gradients around .10, but I was expecting .18 or so. This sucks if you like really strong wind. It is blowing in the low twenties at Stevenson, and it’s about the same at Rooster. So, you can still go windsurfing or kiting today, in the semi-sunshine, so it’s still a good day in the Gorge!

Have a look at Rooster: http://www.pdxgreen.com/RoosterCam.aspx

I think the wind will pick up a bit later. 24-27 seems reasonable towards midday today. Tomorrow looks similar, with high pressure holding over the desert and a tropically-driven low pressure system hanging off the coast.

Okay, I know that a short, lame forecast, but I want to dedicate all my energy and concentration to my cup of coffee.

Have a great day!

We still have light west gradients this morning, but a burly arctic air mass is about to slip into eastern OR and WA. High pressure associated with the burliness combines with less weak high pressure off the coast for increasing easterlies today. By mid-afternoon, wind speeds hit the 22-26 range in Stevenson and at Rooster.

This is just a preview, a warmup, to tomorrow’s super-burly east winds. Well, maybe not super-burly, but 28-32 with higher gusts seems reasonable in Stevenson and at Rooster.

Sunday’s east winds also don’t qualify as super-burly, but 30-35 is likely at Stevenson, with a little more possible at the Rooster Rock Dustbowl.

Don’t forget to come help weed the HR Waterfront park tomorrow. Donuts. Coffee. Cool people.

And tomorrow night, come to Dog River Coffee for a telemark ski movie. Watching people skin up hills is almost as much exercise as doing it yourself.

Have a great day today!

Temira