We’re seeing orographic (terrain-enhanced) snowfall this morning with breaks in the weather, and that’s going to continue through late morning. In other words, it’ll be snowing and with sunbreaks this morning. After that, we’ll see a weak weather system move in, increasing the snowfall rate this afternoon and evening. The snow level today will be around 3000′ all day, fluctuating a bit, but not too drastically. We may see as much as .1-.2” water value (WV) this morning, for 1-2” of new snow. After a midday break, we’ll see another .1-.2” WV between 4pm and 10pm, for another 1-2” of snow. Wind today will be W 30 early, dropping to W 20 by 9am and turning to SW 10 this afternoon. Continued after the chart.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Tomorrow looks partly cloudy to start and sunny by midday. The snow level will be 3000′ early, rising to 5500′ in the afternoon. No new snow. Light wind. Tuesday starts off sunny, turns cloudy midday, and sees light rain after 4pm. The snow level Tuesday will be 8000′ in the morning and 7000′ when the precip hits. We’ll see, if nothing changes in the models, just .2” WV that falls in the form of rain between 4pm Tuesday and 4am Wednesday. Wind Tuesday will be light SW in the morning, picking up to SW 10-20 in the afternoon.
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Wednesday looks mostly sunny pretty much all day. The free air freezing level will be around 9000′ all day with SW wind at 20mph. Thursday looks very, very wet on the mountain, with several inches of rain falling. The rain may switch to snow in time for us to pick up a nice layer of fresh by Friday morning, but it’s really too far out to predict that, so let’s wait and see.
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Gorge Wind Forecast
West wind at 10-13 this morning through the whole Gorge, backing off to west 5-10 this afternoon. Monday: East wind at 30 at Rooster for much of the day with E 40 after 4pm. Tuesday: E 40 in the morning and E 25 in the afternoon.
Random Morning Thoughts
I was talking to my cat yesterday wishing she could understand my words, and she was meowing at me, probably wishing I could understand her. This got me thinking about what pets can teach us about relationships with other humans.
We can’t communicate with our pets, for the most part. And although we can train them superficially, we can’t ask them to be self-aware and modify their core personality features. The best we can do is be good parents, and hope that our unconditional love will impact them in positive ways. Because of this, we’re forced to love our pets just the way they are, accepting the quirks, annoying habits, and neediness.
We can learn a lot from this, I think. By loving our not-perfect animals, we can learn to love the not-perfect humans around us. After all, we have zero power to change the personality of the humans in our world, just as we have zero power to change the personality of our pets. If we can study ourselves and understand how we accepted our flawed pets, we can find the ability to accept the flawed humans around us.
And when I saw “flawed”, I mean “perfect”. After all, none of us is without flaws, and we’re all perfect just the way we are, until we work on ourselves and become even better. So, see how you accept your pet (or anything else you love unconditionally), apply it to other people, and apply it to yourself. Your world will become a better, happier, less anxious place. 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
It’s a showery morning in the Gorge, and we’ll see continued sprinkles this morning. There’s a chance of a nice dry period midday, followed by another round of light rain between 4pm and 10pm. Temps will be in the mid 40’s all day. Light west wind. 99% chance of rainbows (there were rainbows on Saturday, if you were wondering).
Monday will probably see the Nothing, but there’s a chance of partly cloudy sky in the afternoon. Temps will be in the mid 30’s early and the mid 40’s in the afternoon. East wind. No rainbows. Tuesday looks like Nothing in the morning, but partly cloudy sky is a possibility. Temps will be in the mid 30’s early and the mid 40’s in the afternoon. Clouds move in during the afternoon and light rain starts up around 4pm. East wind. 9% chance of rainbows. Wednesday looks mostly dry and Thursday looks torrentially rainy.
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Road and Mountain Biking
It’s wet and snowy on the trails. The Mosier Twin Tunnels trail is bare and wet with lots of pinecones, so that’s an open ride for you. Or you could do a long road ride out to The Dalles like Deresta, Wong, Marcroft, Kozmo, and all the other big boys did yesterday. In trail news, stay off the doubletrack at Syncline, and you’ll do the trail a favor. Ride it and you’ll damage it. And thank you for your cooperation – Syncline looks better right now than it’s ever looked in winter. You people are amazing.
Riverside and Cebu Restaurants. Yum.
Riverside is offering again its Winter Special: Buy 1 Pasta, Get 2nd Pasta FREE! Valid Sunday – Thursday, 4 pm – 9 pm with 20 of Chef Mark DeResta’s specialty pasta dishes (gluten-free options too). Available in Riverside and Cebu at the Best Western Plus Hood River Inn. $5 Kids Menu offered in Riverside. (Not valid on Feb. 14, on to go orders, or with other discounts.) 541-386-4410 for reservations www.riversidehoodriver.com
Upcoming Events
Coming up today: community yoga at Samadhi at 9am (subbed by Tish this week), meditation at Flow at 11am, yoga at Pure Yoga in The Dalles at 4pm, and yoga at Pure Yoga in Hood River at 6pm. Tomorrow: Tai Chi at the Mt. Hood Town Hall at 1pm, yoga at Samadhi at 6:30, Zumba at the Parkdale Community Center at 6:30, and Aikido at Trinity Natural Medicine at 6pm.
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