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First thing today, I’d like to say thank you to all of you who donated during August pledge drive month. There was never a day where I didn’t post a forecast, because every day someone donated. Thank you to all of you both for using this forecast and for supporting it! Remember that although it’s free for you to use, it’s not free for me. I put a lot of time into giving you an accurate forecast, and I pay for the hosting on this website. If you find it valuable, please take the time to make a donation to support what I do. Your generosity helps keep this going for everyone. I also send an email version of this forecast. Make a $12 or larger donation, and you’re on the email list for a year. No more dealing with the twice-yearly pledge drive, and you’ll also have a chance to win prizes from the sponsors. Thank you again for your support!

This week’s sponsor is Dirt Hugger, offering curbside food waste collection service for your business, school, office, store, restaurant or hospital in Hood River and The Dalles. All that food waste becomes awesome compost for your garden, yard, farm or vineyard. You can pick up that compost or have it delivered. If we as a society can’t make composting happen through our cities and counties, at least we can make it happen through a cool local business. This is one of my favorite businesses in the Gorge. Support them, please

Although we still have a little bit of west wind this morning, the models seem to think it’s going to die off pretty quickly. Then we should see a switch to very light east wind from noon on. It looks like we’ll see east wind at 15-18 at Stevenson and 21-24 at Rooster tomorrow, and east wind at 10-15 on Tuesday. So, today is going to be a lovely day for SUPing or road biking near Hood River (other than the smoke… wow… it’s really smoky this morning).

In other news, today is the unsanctioned Backyard Half Ironman triathlon. The cyclists are leaving the Event Site for a 58 mile ride at 9am, followed by a 13 mile run and a 1.2 mile swim. If you want to hear about the tri group’s events, the best place to find out is the Columbia Gorge Tri Club Facebook page.

Also today, cyclocross racing continues in Cascade Locks, so if you’re looking for some entertainment today, swing by to watch and cheer on our local racers. Apparently it’s also a great place to do some partying. No, not Cascade Locks. The Cyclocross races.

Next weekend is full of cycling events. Hood River hosts the Echelon Gran Fondo, a supported road ride for charity that was named the best fall fondo by Bicycling Magazine. Riders will be on the roads between Hood River and The Dalles and in the Odell area, so be ready for lots of bikes next weekend. For mountain bikers next weekend, Hood River’s Dirty Fingers Bikes has their annual customer appreciation party and campout in the Falls Creek area. Call the shop for more details on location and what to bring.

Also next weekend is the Grominator skateboarding contest at Hood River’s Skate Park. I keep walking by the poster and not writing down the details, but be aware that it’s happening.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

The Clymb: free membership. Cheap gear. Temira approves. Click to join.

First thing today, I’d like to say thank you to all of you who donated during August pledge drive month. There was never a day where I didn’t post a forecast, because every day someone donated. Thank you to all of you both for using this forecast and for supporting it! Remember that although it’s free for you to use, it’s not free for me. I put a lot of time into giving you an accurate forecast, and I pay for the hosting on this website. If you find it valuable, please take the time to make a donation to support what I do. Your generosity helps keep this going for everyone. I also send an email version of this forecast. Make a $12 or larger donation, and you’re on the email list for a year. No more dealing with the twice-yearly pledge drive, and you’ll also have a chance to win prizes from the sponsors. Thank you again for your support!

This week’s sponsor is Dirt Hugger, offering curbside food waste collection service for your business, school, office, store, restaurant or hospital in Hood River and The Dalles. All that food waste becomes awesome compost for your garden, yard, farm or vineyard. You can pick up that compost or have it delivered. If we as a society can’t make composting happen through our cities and counties, at least we can make it happen through a cool local business. This is one of my favorite businesses in the Gorge. Support them, please

We’re going to see west wind today in the Gorge and cooler temperatures, but with high pressure in Idaho, the wind can’t get super strong. That said, we do have a .09 gradient this morning and wind in the upper teens. This morning looks nice, with steady west wind at 19-23 near Hood River. This afternoon, however, a low pressure system approaches, and although that will spread the wind out from Stevenson down to Rowena, it will also make it gusty and holey. And it will make it windy in the upper valleys, a fact you road cyclists might find helpful.

Of note is the fact that after today, you won’t see west wind for a long, long time, so you should definitely take advantage of the westerlies today.

Right now models are suggesting light west wind switching to light east wind on Sunday, but with high pressure off the coast and low pressure in the desert, the common sense call is for west wind of some sort all day on Sunday, so I’m going against the models and just calling for very light westerlies, possibly switching to very light easterlies after noon.

Coming up Monday, Indian Summer goes into full swing, with a big ridge over the PNW giving us highs in the 80’s and light wind for the extended forecast.

If you want to ride bikes today, you’ve got a chance to try the latest and greatest from Kona Bikes for free. Join Dirty Fingers and the Kona rep at Family Man from 10-4. See ya there. Trying bikes is fun!

Also today and tomorrow, you can race cyclocross or just cheer on the spectators at the course in Cascade Locks. Racing runs from 9 to 4 or so both days, so swing by for a bit and give the riders some love.

Coming up next weekend, Dirty Fingers has their annual customer appreciation party and mountain bike riding campout. If you’d like to get in on the fun, and it will be fun, give the shop a call for details. Also next weekend, it’s the Echelon Gran Fondo, named, by Bicycling mag, “The best Fall fondo.”

Have an awesome day today!

Temira