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The Forecast
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| Friday 5000′->1000′ |
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Mt. Hood Weather Forecast
Messy, messy, windy weather continues on the mountain today. Everything mellows out by Saturday and stays mellow for the next week. As a matter of fact, we’ll be heading into a corn snow cycle by the middle of next week: sunshine and above-freezing temps on the slopes.
Friday’s starting off with wet, heavy snowfall and strong wind. By mid-morning, the snow level crashes, the wind ramps up, and the free refills begin. That said, the snow will be wind-affected. We are expecting the snow level to start at 5000′ and fall to 2000′ by 10am. It will fall to 1000-1500′ near Mt. Hood by afternoon and hold overnight. About 0.7” water equivalent is forecast by the GFS today for 7-8” increasingly fluffy (and wind-affected snow). Given the west wind and orographic help, let’s actually go with 12-14” new by this afternoon. Another 0.2” WE is forecast tonight with less wind. Add in the orographics for 3-5” new. Wind: WSW 35-65 early, W 55 by mid morning (lift-stopping, probably), W 50 in the afternoon, WNW 30 around midnight, and W 25 after midnight.
Saturday starts off with lingering snow flurries and sun breaks. The day ends partly to mostly cloudy and clears overnight. The snow level will be 1000-1500′ in the morning and will rise to a free air freezing level of 3000-3500′ in the afternoon. Temps at 5000′ rise to 32F overnight. Just a trace of snow is forecast in the morning before the precip stops. Wind: W 25 in the morning, variable to 10 in the afternoon, and S 5-15 overnight.
Sunday will be sunny on the slopes, and temps will rise above freezing. The day starts with a free air freezing level (FAF) of 0′, but temps will be right at freezing on the slopes. By afternoon, we see the temp at 5000′ rise to the upper 30’s under sunny sky. No precip for the 24 hour period. Wind: S 5-15 in the morning, SSW 5-10 in the afternoon, and SW 5-10 overnight. Sunshine and above-freezing weather sticks around through Wednesday, at least, setting up a corn snow cycle. Very nice. Enjoy!
Note on wind speeds. Different wind directions are experienced in different ways on Mt. Hood. For example, west wind at 50mph will hit the slopes and exposed ridges at W 50. SW 50 may hit the ridges at SW 50, but will likely only be SW 20 below tree line. Hence the ranges for wind. Depends where you are on the mountain. Hopefully that helps clarify.
Gorge Wind Forecast
Friday starts with westerlies at 10-20 at Rooster and easterlies at 10-20 at Stevenson with variable to 10mph elsewhere. By sunrise, or a couple hours later, westerlies go to the nuking zone. We’ll have 30-45mph to Viento and east of Bingen to start. The wind quickly fills in through the central Gorge with 30-50mph averages from Rooster to Boardman. The wind fades a bit late afternoon and drops overnight. River flow is 91,000cfs, river temp is 37F, and high temp forecast is 42F. Saturday starts with W 10-13 west of Cascade Locks with calm wind to the east. Easterlies return at 10-15mph at Stevenson and Rooster late morning and build to 30-35mph in the afternoon. High temp: 42F. Sunday brings easterlies at 40-50 at rooster, 30-40 at Stevenson and 10-15 east to The Dalles. High temp: 37F.
Coast, Jones, Coast
Done until spring, unless there’s an obvious Coast or Sauvie’s or Jones day.
Hood River Weather Forecast
Rain this morning gives way to showers midday and mostly dry weather by the afternoon. Temps will be in the low-mid 30’s early and low 40’s later. Nuking westerlies. 99.9% chance of rainbows and double rainbows. Saturday starts with cloudy and ends with a Nothing cloud. Temps will be in the low-mid 30’s early and low 40’s later. Light westerlies early become light easterlies later. No rainbows. Sunday will be Nothing in the morning and partly cloudy in the afternoon. Temps will be in the upper 20’s early and upper 30’s later. Easterlies. No rainbows.
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Cycling
FREEZE-THAW ALERT: if you notice that temps were below freezing last night and will be above freezing today, don’t ride any trail that’s not under a tree canopy. If you do so, you WILL do significant damage. DON’T DO IT! Plentiful rain recently means most tree-covered trails are muddy. Please don’t ride them either. If you do, you’ll be doing significant and possibly permanent damage. No really, please don’t. There are lots of gravel roads and lots of pavement you can ride instead. Enjoy!
Local Events
Please let me know about events. I often only hear about them if you folx let me know!
Ferment’s Tuesday night 4-mile walk/run is back. Meet there at 6pm. At 7:15am on Wednesdays, there’s a run from the White Salmon Bakery. There’s a night-lit shop mountain bike ride at Syncline on Tuesday evenings at 5:45pm.
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