Saturday: sunny packed powder shred weekend on the mountain!

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The Forecast

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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
Saturday 8000′->0′
Sunday 0′
Monday 0′

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

Packed powder and hardpack conditions continue on the slopes for the weekend. We’ll probably pick up a couple inches of new powder on Sunday night. Dry weather sticks around until Wednesday. We then see temps at 5000′ rise above freezing and stay there for quite a while should the extended forecast hold. And hold it likely shall do, as there’s good model agreement. If you like packed powder, get it now.

Looking at Saturday, we have a sunny day on the slopes. The free air freezing level (FAF) will be 8000′ this morning, 4500′ this afternoon, and back down to 0′ overnight. Temps max out in the 30’s at 5000′. Wind: NW 20-25 in the morning, W 25 in the afternoon, and W 20 overnight.

Sunday will be sunny all day with clouds to 4000′ in the morning and 5000′ in the afternoon. There’s a chance there will be just enough orographic support in the evening for a 2-3” inches of new snow (0.2” water equivalent). Wind: W 20 in the morning, W 30 in the evening, and W 15 after midnight.

Monday looks sunny in the morning with increasing clouds starting in the afternoon. The free air freezing level will be 0′. Wind will be W 15 in the morning, W 10 in the afternoon, and variable to 10 overnight.

Model agreement falls apart starting on Tuesday, but the general picture is relatively clear. Surface temps, not so much… Anyway, Tuesday should be dry and cold on the mountain. Precip moves in on Wednesday. That starts as snow but probably will switch to mixed precip in the afternoon and then rain overnight as 850mb temps (5000′) rise to +3C. Sadly, the extended forecast is holding 850mb temps above 0C, and as high as 5C, for at least several days (ECMWF) or a couple of weeks (GFS). Vote for the Euro for now, and get up and shred while the shredding is good!

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Weekend models bounce the wind around between easterly and westerly for a couple of days and then take us back into a few days of stronger east wind as very cold air drops into the east side. For Saturday, we start with 15-25 at Rooster and Stevenson. That’s easterly. The wind turns to W 14-17 from Stevenson to Hood River this afternoon. River flow is 116-133kcfs, river temp is 42F, and high temp forecast is 41F. Sunday starts with E 10-15 near Stevenson. The wind switches to W 10-13 from Stevenson to Hood River in the afternoon. High temp: 39F. Monday kicks off with easterlies at 15-20 at Rooster and 30-35 at Stevenson. Afternoon wind rises to 40+ at Rooster and 30-35 near Stevenson. Model disagreement precludes a precise extended forecast, but it does appear we’ll have easterlies Wednesday and potentially Thursday.

Jones, Sauvie’s, Coast – Done for the Season

Hood River Weather Forecast

Nothing today should go away and leave us with sun this afternoon. Temps will be in the mid 20’s early and low 40’s later. Easterlies this morning. Westerlies later. No rainbows. Sunday will be Nothing all day. Temps will be in the low 30’s early and upper 30’s later. Easterlies early. Light westerlies later. No rainbows. Monday will be Nothing in the morning with a partial Nothing later. Temps will be in the upper 20’s early and mid 30’s later. Easterlies. 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!
Three events on the 17th: The Dirty Fingers KringleKrawl and a snowkiting event at Windance (4-6pm). Also: the Big Winds Holiday Blowout Sale. 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.