Saturday: 72 hours of clouds and precipitation

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The Forecast

Your favorite beach	Dawn Patrol	9am- 11:30a	11:30a- 3pm	3pm- dusk
Today’s Gorge Wind – these are ranges for the average speed, not a predicted wind range. =)
Rooster Rock	beach	closed	buns	clothed
Steven’s Locks	LTV	LTV	LTV	LTV
Swell-Hood River	LTV	LTV	LTV	LTV
Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena	LTV	LTV	LTV	LTV
Rufus, etc.	LTV	G13-16?	LTV	G20-23?
Roosevelt & Arlington	LTV	G13-16?	LTV	G20-23?

Gorge Wind Forecast

Here is the latest update on launch sites. All land managers are encouraging people to not travel to access recreation, and all are carefully watching to see if people maintain social distancing. If crowding happens, water access will be revoked. If you are local and lucky enough to have water access in your community, please do this: rig, play, leave. Recreate and go home. That’ll both help limit the spread of SARS-COV-2 and will increase parking availability.

Washington and Oregon State Parks in the Gorge will likely remain closed until the end of May (Rowena, Doug’s, Hatchery, Viento). Swell City is closed. The Hook is open for windsurfing and SUP. No kiting allowed from the Hook. The Spit and Marina are open. The Event Site is closed. Army Corps has reopened Avery and Roosevelt but NOT The Wall or Rufus. Mosier is only open for residents of Mosier. Stevenson launches are closed. Arlington is open.

Wind forecast for Saturday: light and variable most of the day. There may be a couple short periods of slightly stronger wind. Between 9am and 12pm, we’ll see gusty 13-16 in the eastern Gorge, maybe. We’ll also, maybe, see gusty 20-23 between 5pm and 8pm east of The Dalles. River flow is 301kcfs and temp is 54 degrees. Sunday looks light and variable all day long.

Monday sees inland low pressure start to move east and an offshore low start to move south. This allows more influence from offshore high pressure. We starts with 10-13 in the western Gorge and gusty 20-23 east of The Dalles. Afternoon wind: 12-15 in the west and gusty 23-26 from Rowena to Arlington. As of this morning, Tuesday through Friday all look to bring westerlies in the mid 20’s, but wind quality may be decreased by weak weather systems moving through. Still… better than the offshore upper level low setup!

Jones, Sauvie’s, and Coast forecast are on break to discourage travel. Most coastal communities have closed beaches due to hoards of visitors not respecting social distancing guidelines. This forecast will return when those towns feel comfortable reopening to visitors.

Mt. Hood Weather Forecast

Timberline is open with exemplary guidelines for protecting guests and staff from the transmission of novel coronavirus. Please read their guidelines and rules here. Well done, T-Line! The Mt. Hood weather forecast will be on vacation unless something interesting happens in the weather up there. Some of you will be tempted to go out backcountry skiing. Please don’t – accidents do happen, and you may put others at risk. Timberline is allowing uphill access outside the permit area on the climbers’ trail ONLY. No uphill traffic is allowed at Meadows.

Hood River Weather Forecast

Clouds this morning Heavier rain arrives after 5pm. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and mid to upper 60’s later. Light wind. No rainbows. Sunday looks cloudy. Rain will likely stay east of Hood River, but showers are still possible. Temps will be near 50 in the morning and in the mid 60’s later. Light and variable wind. 4% chance of rainbows. Monday looks cloudy early and partly cloudy later. Showery weather with a chance of scattered thunder. Temps will be near 50 early and near 60 later. Moderate westerlies. 89% chance of rainbows. Total rainfall in the next 72 hours: 1/2” or so. Looking for a complete Columbia Gorge forecast? Looking for more humor in your weather? Obscenities? You’re looking for my TATAS: Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service on Facebook.

Cycling

Trail update: Post open to residents of HR County. No parking in HRC forests (staging areas, or anywhere). Syncline/Coyote Wall: CLOSED (it’s in the scenic area, and all those trails are closed – you risk a parking ticket or more if you’re there). Mt. Hood National Forest: trailheads and developed areas CLOSED. Trails: open if you can park somewhere that’s not a trailhead. Kreps/SDS: open. Sandy Ridge: Open. Nestor Peak: open. Columbia Hills State Park: CLOSED. Skamania County trails outside the scenic area: open. Falls Creek: too snowy to ride as of five days ago per an email I received.

Current lawful social distancing requirements: only people from your household in Klickitat County. Up to 5 friends in Skamania County. Up to 10 in Hood River County.