Saturday: just your garden-variety July Gorge weather plus 5-10F more heat.

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Despite the heat, July is showing up will all the wind you could want. We’ll have westerlies in at least the “moderate” zone through Tuesday; models then hint at a cooldown to “normal” temps with an associated increase in stronger wind.

Looking closer at Saturday, we find that NWS has posted a Red Flag Warning for a combo of strong wind, low humidity, and dry fuels. Do be careful out there with your flames. On the river, the day starts with gradients of 0.11 (pdx-dls) and 0.03 (dls-psc) with a 1028 reading offshore. You’ll want to focus your attention west of The Dalles today. Early westerlies will be 20-23 from Viento to Mosier with 11-14 most other places. Models suggest a slow build to 25-28. The wind fills in by early afternoon from Stevenson to The Dalles. East of there, you’ll find 13-167 to the peaches-and-apricots zone at Maryhill and Arlington this morning. 22-25 later afternoon at Rufus and 18-22 at Arlington. River flow is late-summer low: 109kcfs. River temp is late-summer warm: 69F. High temp for Hood River: 88F.

Moving on to Sunday, we see a similar setup, but not quite so much wind. The day starts with 20-23 from Viento to Mosier with 8-11 everywhere else. That’s pretty much the call for most of the day. As a trough approaches the coast in the evening, the wind will pick up to 22-25 from Stevenson to The Dalles with 12-15 at Rufus and light/variable wind east of there. High temp: 88F.

While the trough may deepen the marine layer a bit Monday morning, it’s likely to be a short-lived increase in cloud cover. Morning westerlies start at 20-23 from Viento to Mosier and rise to 22-25 from Stevenson to The Dalles. Tuesday looks similar. Models currently suggest stronger wind on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Coast, Jones, Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind direction north unless otherwise noted. Swell forecast from NWS.) Saturday: 15-20/20-25+/30-40, W swell 3′ at 15 seconds. Sunday: 20-25/25-30/30-40, W 4′ @ 14. Monday: 15-20/20-25/30-40, NW 5′ @ 7. Jones Saturday: 20-23. Sunday: 20-23. Monday: 18-21. Sauvie’s Saturday: 16-19. Sunday: 16-19. Monday: 16-19.  

Mt. Hood Weather forecast

On vacation unless some wintry weather happens.  

Hood River Weather Forecast

Sunshine for Saturday. Temps will be in the upper 60’s early and upper 80’s later. Strong westerlies. No rainbows. Sunday will also be sunny. Temps will be near 60 early and in the upper 80’s later. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Monday looks almost the same: temps near 60 early and 90 later. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. NO sign of rain in the next two weeks.

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Cycling

SDS (Whoopdee, Underwood), BLC, HFM, DGS, and Kreps Land (Hospital Hill) are now closed until the end of fire season. It is also vital that people respect this closure to maintain positive relationships between the landowners and trail users.

Open trails: Post, Falls Creek, Lewis River, Sandy Ridge, Columbia Hills, Gorge 400, Plains of Abraham / Ape Canyon. 44 Road: Eightmile, Fifteenmile, Bottle Prairie, Dog River, Superconnector, Cedar, Knebal, Cooks Meadows, 450 to the top, Underhill. Siouxon and Huffman Peak are “temporarily closed” due to wildfire last year.

Maple Road in Post Canyon is closed. DO NOT drive past the closed signs. If you do so, you will jeopardize TRAIL access for the entire summer. This is the road that runs to the west, just north of the Binns/Riorden intersection. Also, the trail from the bottom of Post Canyon to Seven Streams Staging Area is now closed. It’s on private land. Respect the closure.  

Local Events

Mountain View Cycles women’s ride is every Thursday, bottom of Post at 5:30pm. They have an all-genders ride at 6pm on Wednesday, end of the pavement on Post Canyon Road. Their shop road ride leaves at 9am on Saturday for a 2 hour ride. Dirty Fingers has the Post n’ Pint on Thursday evenings at 5:30pm from the shop. They also have the women’s Post n’ Pinot Wednesday evening at 5:30pm from the shop. Oregon E-Bikes has ladies’ rides at 7:30am Sunday and Monday. The Small Boat Group does paddles every Thursday evening at 6pm. Hatch laps are the latest thing they do.

Other weekly events. Tuesday night there’s meditation with the Pacific Hermitage Monks at 5:15 (1 hour) and 6:30 (30 minutes followed by a talk) at Yoga Samadhi in White Salmon. Triathlon practice with the Tri Club is Tuesday at 6pm at West Mayer State Park. Sailboat races happen Wednesday night from the Hood River Marina.  

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