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Mt. Hood Weather Forecast
Models remain on track for snowfall of some amount in the latter half of this week. There’s hasn’t been a lot of agreement either between models or run-to-run within models, so I’ll continue to broad-brush the forecast. For Monday, Mt. Hood will be clear. Free air freezing level: 11,000′. Wind: SW 5. Tuesday starts off clear and turns partly cloudy overnight. Free air freezing level: 10,000′ falling to 6000′ after midnight. Wind: S 10 slowly rising to SW 30 after midnight. Light rain starts up around 4am on Wednesday, continuing all day and switching to light snow after midnight. Snow level: 6000′ early, 6500′ afternoon, 5000′ a couple hours after midnight. Accumulation: .1” rain during the day, .1” mixed precipitation overnight. No accumulation of snow. Wind: SW 30ish all day and night.
The Thursday morning through Saturday morning time period sees intermittent snowfall with the snow level dropping as low as 2000′ on Friday. Total accumulation appears to be somewhere in the 16-20” range unless something changes. Saturday’s a bit of a mystery: the GFS brings in 1” of rain and the Euro brings in colder air and snowfall. So… no forecast for Saturday yet. Looking longer-range than that, the Euro keeps us dry for a couple days and then brings in significant snowfall next Tuesday or Wednesday with significant rain after that.
Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s Monday morning as I write this. The wind will be in the 45-50 range near Rooster all day, 30-35 near Stevenson, and 20-25 near Viento. Ditto Tuesday. Wednesday looks like 35-40 at Rooster all day during the daylight hours with 25-30 near Stevenson and 20-25 near Viento. You’ll probably not be out due to a chance of freezing rain in the morning followed by rain in the afternoon. The wind should switch around to westerly midday Thanksgiving. There’s a chance of strong eastern Gorge westerlies on Friday. River flow on Monday was 165kcfs. Temp: 50 degrees.
JONES, SAUVIE’S, COAST: now on vacation for the fall and winter. Will return in spring.
Power Station cycling classes start November 5th and run all winter!!
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Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s another clear and sunny day out there. Temps will be in the mid 20’s early and the mid to upper 40’s later. East wind. No rainbows. Tuesday looks clear. Some high clouds may move in late in the day for a colorful sunset. Temps will be near 30 early and in the upper 40’s later. East wind. No rainbows. If it stays clear long enough on Tuesday night, we’ll have light freezing drizzle in the cold pockets on Wednesday morning for a few hours followed by rain. East wind. 27% chance of rainbows. The next few days after that look wet.
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Road and Mountain Biking
**Alert** We have now entered freeze-thaw season. Multiple locations have been dropping below freezing overnight. This means that exposed trails will potentially be delicate and subject to damage. Please limit your riding to areas under the canopy. HRATS have a trail work party at 9:30 this morning (Saturday) at Family Man.
Upcoming Events
Our Monday community events start with by donation yoga at Flow at 8;30. There’s meditation at Trinity Natural Medicine at noon, $5 Tai Chi at the Hood River Adult Center at 2:30, free stress reduction class at HAVEN in The Dalles at 5:30, yoga at Samadhi at 6, and Zumba at Mid-Valley Elementary at 6:30. There’s also pickup kickball at Bingen’s Daubenspeck Park at 6. Thursday is the Turkey Trot Fun Run from the Hood River end of the Twin Tunnels. This benefits the Mosier School.
Random Morning Thoughts
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Have an awesome day today!
Temira
