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Good morning,

I saw people out spraying and road biking yesterday, but today’s not going to be a good day for it. The wind is quite light right now, with the gradient only at .03, but it’s going to get quite windy today. The only problem is that this classic Gorge setup includes a little disturbance moving through. That tends to make it windy for a while in the Corridor before the strong wind shifts to Stevenson and Hood River. Anyway, we’ll see a steady increase to 26-30 by early afternoon. You can probably kite or sail anywhere you wish today, as it’ll be windy from Stevenson all the way east.

It will be very windy tonight, especially near Hood River, where Arthur’s garbage cans are likely to blow away. Tomorrow morning will be somewhere between 25-30 near Hood River, east to Doug’s, backing off to 23-26 in the afternoon from Hood River eastward. High pressure builds back in on Thursday for lighter west wind, and possibly a switch to east wind.

If you want to work on trails, there’s an all-girl work party today in Post Canyon. The girls will be working in upper Post with Rick Higgins of CGORA and Douglas Johnson of Hood River County. If you want to join them, meet at Family Man at 8:45 or 10 Speed Roastery at 8:15 for coffee. If it’s later than that, they’ll be up on the 133 trail.

Coming up tomorrow, there’s a lot going on. The Kayak Shed’s shop paddle will either be on the Lower White Salmon or the Lower Hood. The first is class II and the second Class III, and they are both running at pretty stiff levels. Call the shop for more information. At 6:30 tomorrow evening, the sailboats leave the Hood River Marina. At 7pm, the Hood River County planning commission starts a meeting about the Barrett Park proposal, so be there to present your side. Finally, at 7:30 tomorrow, Richard Hallman presents a slideshow at Dog River on surfing the Oregon Coast.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Saturday

Well. It’s nice to have new snow on the mountain, but I sure didn’t see the freezing rain coming. Neither did NOAA. When I called them to complain this morning, they were as baffled and stunned as I was. Sorry guys, but we have no explanation. Maybe the upper level low dragged some warm air along its southern portion as it crossed Washington early this morning?

Anyway, I think we’re going to see continued orographic precipitation on Mt. Hood today. I would guess it will switch back to snow around 10am, with another 1-2” of accumulation. The freezing level will be around 1500’ (not that it’s helping, with the precip falling as supercooled liquid). Wind will be W 15-25 early, fading slowly to W 5-10 by 7pm.

Tomorrow sees an inversion build under clear skies. The freezing level will be 8000’ early, rising to 10,000’ by 4pm. Mt. Hood wind will be N 10-20 early, going to NW 15-25 by 10am and swinging to W 10-15 by 4pm.

Saturday looks dry as well, with a continuing inversion and the freezing level around 10,000’. Mt. Hood wind will be SW 5-10 early, going to W 20-30 by 4pm.

Sunday looks a bit odd, with limited moisture in the atmosphere coalescing around 5000’ to form either fog, freezing fog, low clouds, light freezing rain, or possibly some random light mix of frozen precip in the morning hours. We’ll have to wait and see on this one. The freezing level will be around 5500’-6000’ early, dropping to 4000’ in the afternoon. The wind will be W 10-15 going to NW 10-20 in the afternoon.

In mountain biking news, Post Canyon was still awesome yesterday. I don’t know if the ½” of snow we had in the Gorge last night will affect the awesomeness, but it’s probably worth checking if you’re not headed to the mountain. Riding Post beats the heck out of riding your trainer in front of your TV.

Coming up this weekend, Santa will be at Skibowl all day Saturday. Saturday is also the first Meadows rail jam of the season. Sunday is the NW demo tour at Meadows. Free demos of all the latest gear… this is your chance to try all the coolest, newest, raddest stuff.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

p.s. If you find this report useful, entertaining, or just want to recognize all the hard work that goes into it, please take the time to make a donation by clicking on the link below. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list ‘til November 2012, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors. If you don’t PayPal, you can send a donation to PO Box 841 in Hood River, 97031.