It’s a clear start to the day on Mt. Hood, but a quick-moving front will bring a shot of snow midday before the sky clears off again this evening. The snow level today will rise to 5000′ mid-morning and drop to 2000′ with the arrival of the weather system, dropping further to 1000′ or less overnight. We’ll see .4” water value (WV) between noon and 4pm, for 4-5” of new snow, followed by flurries and sunbreaks. Wind today will be SW 10-15 early, rising to SW 20 around noon and turning to W 30 in the afternoon and evening. Continued after the chart.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Monday sees on and off flurries all day, with clear sky in the evening and overnight. The snow level will be around 1000′ early and 2000′ in the afternoon. Total accumulation will be less than 2”. Wind on Monday will be W 30 in the morning, turning to N 15 in the afternoon.
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Tuesday looks sunny. The free air freezing level starts off below 1000′ and rises to 12,000′ in the afternoon as an inversion develops. Wind Tuesday will be ENE 20 early, light and variable midday, and W 10 in the afternoon. Wednesday currently looks partly to mostly cloudy and warm with light wind.
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Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s Sunday. We’ll see easterlies at 30-35 early, fading to light and variable midday, and becoming W 5-10 in the evening. Monday looks like W 10-13 through the whole Gorge early with W 13-16 in the afternoon from Steven’s Locks to Doug’s Beach. Tuesday looks like E 30-40. Wednesday looks like E 20-30 early and E 10-15 in the afternoon.
Random Morning Thoughts
One of my subscribers sent me a sweet email the other day suggesting that it might be okay for me to give myself a break from the time-consuming RMT’s once in a while. Yeah, I’m not so good at taking breaks, am I? Many of us, I think, aren’t good at taking breaks. We drive ourselves hard in work, in play, and even in relaxation. Some of that endless motion is because we don’t want to stop and feel or see what’s inside of us.
I keep writing because I believe it’s important to look inside and see what’s there. And quite frankly, I don’t have the willpower to keep a journal, although I think journaling is a worthy pursuit. Anyway, when we look inside, even ever-so-briefly, we learn about our experience. We learn about what is making us tick, what drives us to do the things we do. We understand our emotions better, we understand how we interact with others better, and we move closer to living fully in our present experience.
Turning inward is painful sometimes. That’s why we keep moving. On the other hand, the more we turn inward, the more our inner experience transforms into something better, something lighter, something easier to carry around. The trick to transformation, however, is that we have to do what feels so scary – we have to look inside and really get to know the chaos within. If you choose to do that, you are a brave and determined human being. I salute you. And if you choose not to look inside, that’s brave too, because you’re choosing to live with things as they are. Y’all have an awesome day.
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist. 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.
Gorge Weather Forecast
I looked outside my house just before 5am, and there was Nothing out there. I know it’s Nothing, because there are stars visible on Mt. Hood and none down here. Expect clouds this morning, rain 1pm-4pm, and partly cloudy sky late this afternoon. Temps will be just below freezing early and in the mid 40’s this afternoon. East wind early, west wind late. 87% chance of rainbows.
Monday looks partly cloudy with occasional light sprinkles. It’s even possible, if the timing is perfect, that we’ll see a touch of freezing rain, especially above 500′. But that’s pretty unlikely. Anyway, temps will be in the low 30’s early and the upper 40’s in the afternoon. Light west wind. 31% chance of rainbows.
Tuesday may start out with the Nothing, but looks sunny for much of the day. Temps will be in the low 30’s early and the upper 40’s in the afternoon. East wind. No rainbows. The rest of the week looks dry with a big old inversion. Models do suggest sun, rather than Nothing, so that’s nice.
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Road and Mountain Biking
I went out and took a lap at Syncline yesterday, and Maui was great. I bet Moab was great too. The doubletrack was a stream for much of its length. It’s going to be a nice morning for a ride, but rain midday will make you cold and wet. Same goes for the roads: you’re better off early, because it’s going to rain later on. Now, if you can just hold on for a couple of days… next week looks dry, all week long, making for awesome mountain biking.
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Coming up today, there’s community yoga (free or by donation) at Samadhi at 9am. There’s a community meditation at Flow Yoga at 11am. There’s pickup touch rugby at 3pm at the Mosier School, there’s 4pm YogaFaith at Pure Yoga in The Dalles, there’s ping pong at the Hood River Armory at 5pm, and there’s community yoga at Pure Yoga in Hood River at 6pm.
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