| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rooster Rock | E 25-30 | E 25-30 | E 10-15 | E 5 | |
| Steven’s Locks | E 20-25 | E 20-25 | E 20-25 | E 5 | |
| Hatchery/Wunderbar | LTE | LTE | LTE | LTE | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | LTE | LTE | LTE | LTE | |
| Rufus, etc. | LTE | LTE | LTE | LTE | |
| Roosevelt, etc. | LTE | LTE | LTE | LTE | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
There’s an easterly breeze this morning, a delight for the folks in Hood River who suffered through air quality of 355 last night. The east wind will hold at 25-30 near Rooster Rock this morning with 20-25 near Stevenson, Cascade Locks, and Home Valley. The wind will fade as you head eastward from Home Valley, although there will be light easterly flow through the entire Gorge this morning. Gradients go slack and wind goes calm by 2pm. We’ll see light westerlies after 10pm or so.
Sunday starts off with west wind at 10-13 or so from Cascade Locks to Arlington. The Rooster & Multnomah Falls area might even get in on the light westerly flow, given the setup. As low pressure sits in the desert, an upper low moves into BC, and high pressure sits in the Pacific, we’ll see the wind pick up to gusty and unreliable west 21-26 from Cascade Locks to Arlington. When the rain hits the western Gorge around 4pm, the wind will drop off to 12-15 or so there, holding in other locations until the rain starts.
Monday looks like 12-15 through the entire Gorge in the morning. In the afternoon, we’ll have 12-15 in the western Gorge with 22-25 from Mosier to Arlington. The broad-brush picture for Tuesday is light westerlies from Cascade Locks to Hood River with gusty 19-23 further east. If the forecast holds for Wednesday, we’re going to see westerlies at 30+ for much of the day east of Hood River with very gusty 20-30 in the western Gorge.
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Jones, Sauvie’s, Coast Beta Test Forecast
Jones Saturday: 16-19. Sunday: no. Monday: no. Sauvie’s Saturday-Monday: no. Coast (north/central/south). Saturday: no/no/20-25, W 3′ @ 10. Sunday: S 15-20/S 15-20/no, W 3′ @ 10. Monday: SW 20/SW 15/no, NW 7′ @ 8.
Random Morning Thoughts
Today’s mental hack: how to trick your brain into giving you a little dopamine. I was reading some research recently about food-seeking and dopamine release. When we eat, especially sugary and fatty things, our mind releases dopamine. We feel good. Turns out that about half of the dopamine is actually released while we are seeking food.
Try this out: Imagine some delicious something, perhaps those Ghiradelli milk chocolate chips that I can’t keep in the house. Or Ben & Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. Imagine the taste, smell, texture, temperature, etc., in as much detail as you can. Let yourself be there fully in the first imagined bite of that special food. Hang out with this for a minute or two. More than likely, you’ll feel your mood lift a little.
If you do this when you’re craving something, you should actually feel the craving diminish after a few minutes. It’s not just food. It’s whatever you do to soothe: a cigarette, substances, checking Facebook, biting your nails, etc. Your mind wasn’t actually seeking that “thing”. It was seeking dopamine (among other things, of course – I’m simplifying the process). I happen to find this pretty f’ing cool. I hope you’ll find it fascinating enough to play with too. Have an awesome day.
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist (but I could be 27 graduate school credits from now). 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, even when I am a therapist.
Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s a chilly morning here in the Gorge with the thermometer reading 45 degrees. Temps will rise to the upper 70’s today. We’ll have increasing high clouds as the day goes on. East wind. No rainbows. Sunday looks clear early and cloudy in the afternoon. Temps will be near 50 early and near 70 in the afternoon. Rain starts up around 10pm near Hood River. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Monday looks showery. Temps will be near 50 early and near 60 in the afternoon. Moderate westerlies. 99% chance of rainbows. Snow level 5500′ Monday morning through Tuesday morning, 8000’+ until Wednesday morning, then 5500′-6000′ through Friday morning.
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White Sprinter Van of the Week
Road and Mountain Biking
Post Canyon, Hospital Hill, Whoopdee, Underwood, and all other trails on Hood River County, Kreps, and SDS lands remain closed due to extreme fire danger. All ridgeline trails in Post Canyon, according to a reliable source, will be impacted by fire suppression efforts including cutting of 30-40′ wide firebreaks.
Falls Creek is now closed from the top due to fire. Everything you can ride along I-84 is currently closed or inaccessible. Open trails in the area: Syncline, Buck Creek, Nestor Peak, and anything along the 44 Road. McClellan Meadows trail and other trails that leave from the top of Old Man Pass are closed. Falls Creek Trail is open from the bottom but is closed above the Horse Camp. All campfires and smoking are now prohibited in the Mt. Hood National Forest and Gifford Pinchot, and the Mt. Hood Forest is now at IFPL 4.
Upcoming Events
A couple of this weekend’s events have been canceled – the Special Olympics Shred Day in Hood River has been rescheduled for October 28th. The Music Festival of the Gorge this afternoon has been moved from Hood River’s Waterfront Park to Springhouse Cellars, and tomorrow’s Gorge Kids Triathlon has been canceled.
Still happening today is a free half-day meditation retreat at the White Salmon Grange from 1 to 5. That’s followed by the annual Pah Bah Potluck (best potluck ever) tomorrow at 11. One last thing: Yoga Samadhi in White Salmon is offering free yoga for firefighters
Click here for the full events calendar.
Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
The Mt. Hood snow forecast is currently on vacation. It will stay on vacation until I deem it to be close enough to winter that we need a Mt. Hood snow forecast. Be safe out there on the snow this summer!
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
