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The Forecast

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Monday 2000′->0′
Tuesday 0′->3500′->0′
Wednesday 0′

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

Quite the week of weather coming up, but let’s start with this morning… 6” of dry, fluffy snow fell on the resorts last night. Hopefully that’ll clean up some of yesterday’s tree litter. It will certainly make for lovely skiing. We’re going to pick up a little more snow today, significant snowfall Tuesday night, and then some amount of rain Thursday night into Saturday morning. Models have no clue how much rain will fall in that period. Looking at the extended period, models generally keep temps at 5000′ above freezing and bring in significant precipitation, but it’s way too far out to get the exact details.

Monday kicks off with flurries and stays that way. The snow level will be 2000′ in the morning and will fall to 0′ near Mt. Hood tonight. About 0.1” water equivalent (WE) is forecast during the day for up to an inch of new snow. Same overnight. Wind: W 30 in the morning, W 20-25 in the afternoon, and W 15 overnight.

Scattered flurries prior to dawn on Tuesday give way to dry weather during the day and moderate to heavy snow overnight. The snow level will be 0′ in the morning. It’ll briefly rise to 3000′-4000′ overnight before dropping back to 0′ Wednesday morning. Models are calling for anywhere between 0.2” WE to 1.3” WE, which makes a prediction nearly impossible. For now, let’s call it half a foot of snow and refine that as we get better clarity from the models. Wind will be @ 15 int eh morning, WSW 30-35 in the afternoon, WNW 45-50 in the evening, and W 45-50 overnight.

Flurries Wednesday morning give way to sunshine then partly high overcast sky. Temps will plummet as the day goes on; the 850mb (5000′) temp falls from -2C to -18C then -23C by Thursday morning. Timing could change somewhat on this forecast. Wind Wednesday: W 45-50 prior to dawn. NW 20-30 in the morning. E 10 in the afternoon, and E 25-30 overnight. Thursday looks quite windy, at least in the morning, and bitterly cold. All eyes turn to Thursday night (snow) then Friday (rain) and Saturday (rain). Etc for the extended period. Get it now!  

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Pretty impressive easterlies are forecast for the latter half of this week. But let’s start with today. Monday starts with E20 at Maryhill and W20 at Viento as the cold air and warm air duke it out. Cold air wins later, and easterlies pick up to 15-25 east of Hood River, 10-15 near Cascade Locks, and light easterly near Rooster. Those winds build tonight. Tuesday starts with E 50 at Rooster and E 30-35 at Stevenson. The wind dips to 30-35 (Rooster) and 25-30 (Stevenson) in the afternoon. High temp: 32-35F. Wednesday will be sub freezing all day. Easterlies will be 15-25 east of Viento in the morning with 15-20 from Rooster to Viento. Afternoon: 35-40 at Rooster, 30-35 at Stevenson, and 10-15 to the east of Viento. Thursday: the gradient will be a ridiculous 0.50 inHg (17mb) for outrageously strong easterlies (assuming the cold pool doesn’t spill over the Cascades). Friday: also quite windy.  

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Hood River Weather Forecast

Clouds this morning add some snowflakes this evening with a trace to 1/2” snow overnight. Temps will be in the upper 30’s all day. Light westerlies switch to easterlies at some point. 9% chance of rainbows. Tuesday starts with a few snowflakes then turns dry. Snow returns overnight. Temps will be in the low 20’s early and 30-35 in the afternoon. Easterlies. No rainbows. Wednesday will have some flurries prior to dawn followed by dry and increasingly cold weather, especially overnight. Temps start in the low 20’s and rise to 30 (maybe). Moderate easterlies (brrr). No rainbows.

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Local-ish Events

Please let me know of outdoor-related local-ish events. If you don’t tell me, I don’t know!
Regular weekly events: Monday brings forest bathing and meditation walk. Meet at 5:15pm Mondays in November at the corner of Arrowhead Ave and Indian Creek Road. Suggested donation up to $20. Ferment’s Tuesday night 4-mile walk/run is at 6pm. At 7:15am on Wednesdays, there’s a run from the White Salmon Bakery. At 7am on Friday morning, there’s a run from Pine Street Bakery. On Friday’s at 2:30pm, there’s a free meditation and stretching class (brand new) at Yoga Samadhi. There’s a weekly group paddle to the Event Site on Sunday at 11 am followed by a free pint at the fire pit at Ferment. That’s the “Paddle n’ Pint”. Also: Wednesday Paddle Sprints at the Event Site at Noon. The sprint course is 2 two laps around the sailing buoy near Wells Island and back – 3.5 miles.  

Cycling

Now it’s snowy on the trails! We’ll keep the freeze/thaw language just in case the snow goes somewhere (which it won’t any time soon). If you ride trails that froze and then thawed, you’ll do major and probably permanent damage to the tread. The Family Man closure kicked off on November 1st – the area around Family Man and Riordan Hill Road will be closed into December. Upper elevation trails, above 4000′, are likely to have some snow coverage. If you’re riding Post Canyon, you will need a parking pass. Those can be purchased at many local shops or online.  

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