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| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
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| Rooster Rock | rowdy | dowdy | shady | buns | |
| Steven’s Locks | 10-13 | 13-16 | 13-16 | 9-13 | |
| Hatchery/Wunderbar | 16-19 | 16-19 | 13-16 | 9-13 | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | 16-19 | 13-16 | 9-13 | 6-9 | |
| Rufus, etc. | 16-19 | 13-16 | 9-13 | 6-9 | |
| Roosevelt, etc. | 16-19 | 13-16 | 9-13 | 6-9 | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
The waves on the river were nice yesterday if you could deal with the incredibly gusty wind. There were lots of downwind floating objects yesterday: SUPs and boats and stuff. As a matter of fact, I think there may have been as many of those as there were windsurfers and kiters! We’ll see less wind Monday than we did on Sunday. Post-frontal westerlies at 16-19 east of the cloud deck fade as the day goes on. We should have 16-19 in most locations (maybe not Stevenson, under the clouds) for the first half of the day. Building high pressure will probably take the wind down to 10-13 in the west and less than 10 east of Mosier this afternoon. River temp is 51 degrees. Flow is 384kcfs.
Tuesday starts off calm. A cold front in the afternoon will give us strong, short-lived, extremely gusty west wind for a couple hours at each beach, moving rapidly from west to east. Before that happens, we’ll see a short-lived period of east wind at 10-15 from 8am to 11am. After that, we’ll see 24-28 (briefly, gustily) at Stevenson, then Swell, then Rowena… you get the picture. After 5pm, the wind will die in the central Gorge and pick up out east. It’s probably not worth driving, unless you do so preemptively.
Offshore high pressure builds post-front, setting up (if the forecast holds) three solid days of west wind starting Wednesday. 22-25 in most locations seems like a good bet for Wednesday. Thursday’s currently got a forecast of 26-30, and Friday looks like 24-28. We’ll see how that stacks up as we get closer, shall we? With offshore high pressure building, it’s also going to be worth keeping an eye on the coast for the second half of this week.
Random Morning Thoughts
Emotions are funny things. They sorta come along with the package of being human, and yet we often fight with them. We want this emotion, or we don’t want to feel that emotion. We wish this one would come around more often, and we wish that other one would never visit us again. Guess what? That’s not a choice we get to make!
We can shift our focus to give a break from a particular emotion, but (this is my personal belief), we do need to face the emotion head-on at some point. Doing so can provide a sense of relief. Why? Because as painful as an emotion can be, the intensity ramps up when we fight with it. Letting go of the fight and relaxing into the feeling creates less tension. And the energy we save by stopping the fight can be used to motivate us to do things that actually help – cycling, gardening, talking to friends, simply moving our butts and looking at pretty things (like that osprey that just flew in front of my window, yay!).
So… stop fighting with yourself. That’s just silliness. There are plenty of other things to fight with in this world other than your internal experience! May you be at peace. Have an awesome day.
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist, but I am seeing clients at this time at Comprehensive Healthcare in White Salmon. In the meantime, I am your weather forecaster. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, and consult with your actual therapist about your mental health issues. One other thing: I plan to keep doing this forecast indefinitely. Forecasting and counseling are both deeply meaningful and nourishing to me.
Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
There’s is actually a wee bit of snow in the forecast this week. There’s also a bit of rain. Towards the end of the week, it’ll just be sunshine, warm weather, and slushy snow. For Monday, the mountain will be mostly clear. Free air freezing level 10,000′ in the morning and 13,000′ after midnight. Wind will be W or NW 5-10 during the day and SW 10-15 after midnight.
Tuesday starts off clear, turns cloudy, then turns rainy. The snow level will be 14,000′ early, 12,000′ in the afternoon, and 10,000′ overnight. Up to 1/3” rain will fall from 2pm on through Wednesday morning. Wind will be SW 10-15 early, variable to 15 in the afternoon, and WSW 30 after midnight.
Wednesday looks sprinkly. The snow level will be 10,000′ in the morning. It’ll fall to 4000′ after midnight, perhaps with a few snow flurries. Daytime rain will be up to 1”. Overnight snowfall will not be measurable. Wind will be WSW 30 in the morning, WSW 15 in the afternoon, and W 20 after midnight. Thursday looks colder. The snow level will be 4000′. Up to 1” of new snow will fall, but likely not even that much. Wind will be W 20-25.
Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s mostly clear this morning. it’ll be sunny by afternoon. Temps will be in the upper 50’s early and upper 70’s later. Light west wind. No rainbows. Tuesday starts off clear. Light rain moves in mid-afternoon. Temps will be near 50 early and 80ish in the afternoon. Calm wind early. Strong westerlies late. 18% chance of rainbows. Wednesday sees on and off sprinkles under partly cloudy sky. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and upper 60’s in the afternoon. Moderate west wind. 87% chance of rainbows.
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White Sprinter Van of the Week
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Road and Mountain Biking
Lewis River is reportedly open to the landslide from the bottom. Knebal, Eightmile, and Bottle Prairie are not open. I have a report of 5-7 trees down on the singletrack section of Surveyor’s with the rest rideable. Kitchen Sink is apparently riding good. Today is a fundraiser ride for the National Psoriasis Foundation. That leaves Kickstand Coffee at 10am. If you do that ride, you will find donuts waiting for you at Rowena Crest.
Upcoming Events
Today’s events start with free yoga at Flow in Hood River at 8. There’s meditation at Trinity Natural Medicine at noon. At 2:30, there’s $5 Tai Chi at the Hood River Adult Center. HAVEN in The Dalles has a free stress reduction class at 5:30, there’s by-donation Yoga at Samadhi in White Salmon at 6, and there’s Zumba at Mid-Valley Elementary in Odell at 6:30.
Looking at the rest of the week, Friday is National Bike to work day, and those new E-bikes are making it easier than ever. On Saturday and Sunday, Cascade Locks has college and high school sailboat races. The Cascade Chainbreaker mountain bike race is Saturday in Bend. The HRATS have a work party in Post Canyon Saturday at 9:30, and Saturday is the Carson to Stevenson Ridge Run. Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day when people climb St. Helens in dresses.
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Have an awesome day today!
Temira
