GORGE WIND FORECAST
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Keep in mind that this forecast attempts to predict what the iKite/iWind sensors will read. Think like a local! All sensors are not equal. Swell reads low. Viento/Arlington/The Wall read high compared to Swell. 30mph at Rufus (The Wall sensor) is about 23-24mph at Swell. 30mph at Swell is about 35-37mph at Rufus/Viento/Arlington. Hope that helps!
SHORT-TERM gorge wind forecast
Hi friends! It’s Thursday, and AWSI is happening at the Event Site, which is closed to the public. Expect more folks than usual on the water for September as all the pros and reps and staff take some time to enjoy everything the Gorge has to offer. Today looks like the windiest of the next few. Thanks to incoming weather systems, westerlies of some sort stick around through Monday. They’ll be tricky to forecast precisely due to the moving parts involved. Warmer weather starting Tuesday probably turns the wind offshore (easterly) for several days. We’re probably looking at 20mph easterlies, max, but the details still aren’t clear.
Thursday morning pressures were 30.05/29.96/29.92 for gradients of 0.09 and 0.04. That’s plenty to get the wind going – at dawn, Viento and the Hatch were in the 17-20 range. Helpful pieces today include high pressure well offshore, a cold trough moving in place along the coast, and warmth in the desert. Unhelpful: the moving pieces involved, including an approaching (dry) cold front. By late morning, westerlies build to gusty 21-24mph from Stevenson to Mosier with 13-16mph from Lyle to Doug’s. If the frontal system has more impact than expected, Viento will overperform and the Hatch (and possibly Hood River) will underperform with upper teens instead of low 20s. It’s possible we’ll see a period of gusty 23-26mph between Viento and Hood River late morning into early afternoon ahead of this incoming system.
Afternoon sees the wind fill in as far east as Rufus. Expect gusty 23-26mph to Rufus by early afternoon. As the heat builds in the desert, westerlies rise to 25-28mph between Lyle and Arlington. Between Stevenson and Mosier, afternoon westerlies drop to gusty 18-22mph in response to incoming low and mid-level clouds. Those of you headed to Rufus should expect gusty conditions – that location will be aided by the desert heat, but it generally doesn’t respond well ahead of incoming fronts. River flow over the last 24 hours was 66-91kcfs, river temp is 69.1F, and high temp forecast is 78F for Hood River and 85F east of The Dalles.
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LONGER-TERM gorge wind forecast
Moderate westerlies continue on Friday with cooler weather. Early wind will be post-frontal, widespread, with 18-21mph from Stevenson to Arlington. Wind east of The Dalles will fall off quickly. We’re left with 17-20mph from Stevenson to Hood River for the mid-morning hours and 17-20mph from Stevenson to Avery in the afternoon. When afternoon arrives, areas east of The Dalles drop below 15mph. High temp: 71F in Hood River.
Disagreement is present in Saturday’s forecast. Most of the models/ensemble members call for moderately strong westerlies, perhaps 20-23mph. The GFS deterministic wants to bring a low far enough north to drive a period of strong to very strong eastern Gorge westerlies late afternoon. For now, all I can say is that it’s likely to be breezy/westerly, but it’s unclear just how breezy.
Westerlies continue on Sunday, but once again, we have high uncertainty. The GFS deterministic calls for a nuking day in the desert. The Euro ensembles are on board with wind, but they’re thinking 22-25mph or so. I can say that Sunday’s wind is going to be strongest/steadiest east of Hood River – cloud cover is expected all day in the western Gorge. Models disagree on Monday’s wind as well. For now, let’s call it light to moderate westerlies. Starting Tuesday, easterlies are likely as warmer conditions return to the Pacific Northwest. Let’s call that good for now. Hope to 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 Thursday: 15/20/25-30, N swell 4′ at 5 seconds and W 5′ @ 11. Friday: LTNW/LTNW/N20, NW 6′ @ 9 and SW 2′ @ 17. Saturday: LTN/LTW/LTS, NW 5′ @ 10 and SW 2′ @ 15. South coast wind continues through Tuesday. Jones Thursday: 15-18. Friday: LTW. Saturday: 7-10. Sauvie Island Thursday: NNW 10-13. Friday: LTV. Saturday: N 14-17 late.
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly clear this morning. Partly cloudy this afternoon. Temps start in the upper 50s and rise to the upper 70s. Moderately strong westerlies. No rainbows. Friday will be cloudy then mostly clear. Temps start in the low 50s and rise to the low70s. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Saturday will be partly high overcast then cloudy with rain late afternoon. Temps start in the low 50s and rise to six-seven degrees. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows.
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NEXT WORK PARTY: No known upcoming work parties. Lemme know if you hear of one!
CLOSED TRAILS: Anything south of the 44 Road due to the Grasshopper Fire / Forest Closure Order: for example – Boulder Lakes, Gunsight, Gumjuwac, Lookout Mountain, 450, Fifteenmile. All Green Mountain lands: Underwood Mountain, Whoopdee Trail. Kreps lands, aka Hospital Hill, are closed due to fire danger. Gates are closed in Post Canyon due to fire danger.
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Good morning, neighbors! Another warm day is on tap today, but cooler weather is in the cards Friday through Monday, when we’ll see periods of rain. Summer returns next week – by late in the week, it’s possible The Dalles cold touch 90 degrees. All this rain followed by warmth is going to make all the fall mushrooms very happy – they’re popping already, and this will only make them fruit more enthusiastically!
Speaking of fruiting, Glenwood was quite fruitful this morning with a low temp of 43 degrees. I have no idea why I think of that as fruitful, but I do! Because it was so chilly there, everyone was eating stewed fruit and reflecting on the fruits of their summer labors. Reflecting on your goodness is a fruitful task that’ll result in easier residence in your own head. TATAS recommends this strategy.
Mother Nature is exercising her power, if not her goodness, today. A combo of approaching weather systems will bring us clouds and wind. By afternoon, we’ll all be mostly cloudy with westerlies at 20-25mph. East of Hood River, 25-30mph is possible. Temps rise to 76 in Stevenson, 78 in Hood River, 85 in The Dalles, and 87 in Pasco. NWS is advising us about “patchy blowing dust” from The Dalles eastward into the desert. I assume they mean “dirt”, not “Dust” as in many young adult sci-fi novels, many of which are awesome, especially the series by Philip Pullman.
Friday won’t ‘be dusty. West of Cascade Locks, it may even start drizzly! Morning temps: 45-55 with low clouds west of Hood River and just a few high clouds to the east. By afternoon, most of the clouds dissipate and leave us with a sunny, perfect-temp day. High temps build to 70 in Stevenson, 71 in Hood River, and 76 from The Dalles eastward. Wind will be 15-20mph out of the west between Stevenson and Arlington in the morning. Wind dies off east of Avery pretty early. Afternoon: 15-20mph between Stevenson and Avery.
Rain is forecast by Saturday afternoon. Take care of your dry-weather stuff in the morning! Early temps: 45-60. Afternoon: 65/67/72/75. West wind will be 15-20mph most of the day. It’s possible (but far from certain) it’ll skyrocket in the afternoon ahead of the incoming rain. Be aware of this and prepared if you’re out on the water. After 2pm, rain pushes to The Dalles. After 5pm, it pushes way out east into the desert. Rain totals by Sunday morning range from 0.3” to 0.5” near Cascade Locks with 0.1” to 0.4” from The Dalles eastward.
Wraparound moisture continues early Sunday morning east of the Arlington Triangle, and a different form of rain continues for much of the day west of Hood River. Highs on Sunday range from 64 to 70 with clouds in the morning and partly cloudy sky in the afternoon. Wind: 20mph or more, probably, but lots of uncertainty in that. Another cool day is forecast Monday with most places remaining dry. Wind: probably 15-20mph.
Warmer, sunnier, east-wind weather arrives Tuesday and persists for much of next week. All sorts of good things come of sunny, dry weather that follows a rainy, cool period: good trail conditions, good foraging conditions, cleaner pears and apples, less dust (of the dirt kind, not the supernatural kind), and happy gardens. Hopefully this weather will make you happy too. I’m certainly happy about it! Safe travels. -TATAS
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