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Random Morning Thoughts

I am writing this forecast on the employee bus to Meadows, and I am freezing my butt off. I bet it’s under 40 degrees in here. My fingers on the keyboard are very cold. My toes in my snow boots are cold. At least the cupcakes I baked this morning are also cold… Peter C. will be happy.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It’s cold on Mt. Hood this morning, but not as cold as it is in Eugene, where it was 8 below zero. Or Odell, where it’s -3. Or Hood River, where it was 1. Expect highs in the low double-digits (blazing hot) today on Mt. Hood with increasing and hard-to-predict north wind.

Tomorrow starts with high clouds over the mountain, with flurries for much of the day and less than .1” water value (WV) accumulation for 1” or so of new. Maybe 2” by Tuesday morning, if we’re lucky. Temps will be in the low 20’s and the wind will be NW 20ish all day.

Cloudy weather and light snow flurries continue on Tuesday with temps in the mid to upper 20’s with NW wind at 30 all day.

Wednesday sees temps rise right around freezing on Mt. Hood with no precip. Things get interesting Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as several wet storms move in with freezing levels fluctuating between 4000′ and 6500′. Let’s wait a bit and see how things shake out before we start calling r**n for Mt. Hood. Why? Because rain on the ski resorts doesn’t make anyone happy.

Plain Old Local Weather

We set a record low temp for yesterday. The previous record was 9 degrees. I’m not sure what the temp was at 11:59pm yesterday, but I’m pretty sure it was below that, because it was 11 when I went to bed at 8pm.

We started today with a low of 1 in Hood River, but the record low of -10 still stands. Expect very cold weather today as mid-level fog/clouds keep the full power of Sol from warming the air. If you’d like to be warmer, and you’d like to feel the sun on your clothes (not your skin – it’s too cold for that) head to Mt. Hood, where it was 4 degrees at the base and 8 degrees at 7300′ this morning.

Tomorrow’s temps in the Gorge will likely remain below freezing as the inversion cloud forms, dropping light but continual snowfall on us all day. As a weak weather system moves in midday, we’ll see more snow, maybe an inch or two through Tuesday morning.

Tuesday looks like another round of inverted temps, keeping us in fog and flurries.

This weather system is going to break with heavy precipitation early Thursday morning. If the timing stays as currently predicted, we’ll likely see a period of freezing rain in the Gorge and Parkdale before a switch to rain in the afternoon.

Gorge Wind Forecast

According to the models, we’ll see east wind at 21-24 today and west wind at 21-24 tomorrow. I’m not sure I’m buying westerlies that strong, but let’s go with light west wind tomorrow and Tuesday.

Road and Mountain Biking

Are you out of your mind? It’s 1 degree out. And snowing.

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Events – email me if I’ve missed any outdoor-related events

There’s a winter holiday concert at Columbia Center for the Arts this evening. Aaron Mayer is at the Hood River Inn in a fundraiser for the United Way tonight. And the Seahawks are playing the 49’ers at 1:25pm. Go ‘Hawks!

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Random Morning Thoughts

People keep asking me to ask Meadows to run a bus from Hood River. Okay, people. There’s a bus on Saturday for Brewfest. $10. Leaves the Hood River News parking lot at 10am. Returns at 5pm. You do not have to attend Brewfest to ride the bus.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It’s cold enough now that the snow is doing weird things. It’s packing down hard, it’s accumulating at lower per water value rates that at temps in the teens, and … OMG is it cold on Mt. Hood this morning. -4 degrees at 6600′. Wind chill of -26. It’s 47 degrees in my office, and the lock was frozen solid this morning.

We’ll see clear sky today with temps in the low single digits, at best. Wind will be NE at 20-30 at 5000′ and much stronger higher.

You think it was cold this morning? How about a repeat tomorrow? Or maybe even colder temps? Combine that with north wind at 30+ for a bitterly cold Sunday on Mt. Hood. But hey, at least the sun is shining!

Monday brings slightly warmer weather, with temps in the teens in the morning and low 20’s in the afternoon. A bit of a weather system will drive some high clouds into the region in the afternoon. We might see an inch or two of snow out of this system Monday night. Wind during the day Monday will be N 30 early, becoming more NW at 20-30 in the afternoon.

This weather pattern will gradually break, and a couple of borderline-temp weak systems will come in Wednesday-Friday. So, we are once again in a wait-and-see pattern with the weather.

Plain Old Local Weather

Today will be clear, sunny and cold, with temps in the teens to low twenties. Tonight will be the coldest night in years, with temps dropping into the single digits. I’d heard that cold weather kills bark beetles, so I emailed out county forester to ask. Turns out that they really die off around -20 degrees. So, this cold weather is cold, but sadly, it’s not beetle-killing.

Tomorrow looks cold in the Gorge, with temps in the upper teens to low twenties. It’s going to be a great day to look at frozen waterfalls. I went yesterday, and they were already stunning.

On Monday, temps moderate in the Gorge, but how much they moderate is still up in the air, as there’s a pretty good chance we’ll see some mid-elevation fog develop. If that happens, we’ll likely stay below freezing here at river level. Chances are we’ll see some more flurries (like yesterday’s flurries, which turned into 2” of snow) Monday night into Tuesday. This cold pattern should break on Thursday, possibly with another dusting of snow before switching to rain. Looks like the disaster scenario model runs are all in the past, thankfully.

Gorge Wind Forecast

East 30-40 at Rooster today, E 20-30 tomorrow, and light east wind, possibly switching to light west wind, on Monday.

Road and Mountain Biking

I guess the trails are snowy AND frozen now. Sweet. And there’s gravel on all the roads. Time to get a cross bike, maybe?

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Events – email me if I’ve missed any outdoor-related events

Today is Brewfest at Meadows. There is a SantaCon happening tonight. There’s a winter concert at Columbia Center for the Arts tomorrow night.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira