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The Forecast

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Sunday 8500′->10,000′->7000′
Monday 7500′->9000′
Tuesday 9000′->2000′

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It’s a poetically rainy morning on Mt. Hood, but at least it’s well above freezing! The rain should stop midday and leave the mountain with some sunshine. The next couple of days look very wet in the Cascades, but just wait… temps plummet on Tuesday afternoon and bring massive snowfall along with monster winds. It’s going to be quite the week!!

Sunday morning, as I said, kicks off warm and wet with wet-pack snow. It hasn’t transitioned to granular snow yet. The snow level today starts at 8500′, rises to 10,000′ this evening, and drops back to 7500′ tonight. About 0.1” to 0.2” rain is forecast today. There will be a dry period between 1pm and midnight when the rain will return. Expect about 0.25” after midnight. Wind today: W 20-30 early, SW 15-25 through midnight, and SW 30-50 after midnight.

Monday looks rainy as can be, at least until Tuesday. The snow level will be 7500′ during the day and 9000′ overnight. About 1.3” rain is forecast during the day. That’s followed by another inch overnight. Wind: SW 30-50 in the morning, WSW 20-30 in the afternoon, and SW 30-55 overnight.

Tuesday will be … impressive. It kicks off with heavy rain, switches to massive mixed precip, and then dumps snow. That snow will get a giant orographic hand up. The snow level will be 9000′ early, down to 5500′ by 10am, 4000′ in the afternoon, and will keep dropping to 2000′ after midnight. About 0.6” rain falls early. Then 0.5” mixed precip. The models call for 1.2” water equivalent (WE) snow overnight. However… add in nuking westerlies, and the slopes could double that WE. Call it two feet of wind-affected new snow overnight. Wind: SW 30-55 early rises to SW 40-65 late morning and turns to WSW 55-70 in the afternoon. If that’s not enough to shut down lifts, the W 60mph forecast for the evening will. After midnight, the wind fades to W 35. Moderate snowfall continues Tuesday with the snow level around 2000′. Nice. Very nice.  

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Sunday starts with easterlies at 20ish from Rooster to Viento. They pick up to 30-35 at Rooster this afternoon and 25-30 at Stevenson with E 5-10 east of Viento to Arlington. River flow readings are 130-154kcfs, river temp is 39F, and high temp forecast is upper 20’s. Monday starts with E 25 at Rooster and 30-35 at Stevenson. The wind goes calm midday and picks up to E 25-30 at Stevenson and Rooster late afternoon. Pouring rain. High temp: low 30’s. Tuesday starts with E 10 from Rooster to Viento. That holds until late afternoon or early evening when a low crosses the Cascades and brings westerlies at 20-40mph, probably after dark. High temp: 47 once the westerlies arrive!  

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Hood River Weather Forecast

Clouds start the day and freezing rain joins mid-morning. Total precip: 0.25” to 0.75”. Temps will be in the upper teens early and (guessing) mid 20’s later. Easterlies. No rainbows. Sunday will be dry in the morning and rainy in the afternoon. Hopefully rainy and not icy. Temps will be in the mid 20’s early and (hopefully but not guaranteed) low 30’s later. Easterlies. NO rainbows. Monday looks rainy, rainy, rainy. Temps will be in the low-mid 30’s early and low 40’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!
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.  

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