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There’s delicious food at Cebu and Riverside. This is truly one of my favorite places to both eat and to hang out. The food was lovely last year, but now there’s a new menu. Yummy spinach salad. And pork ribs over polenta. And of course, there’s always the best happy hour in the Gorge, 4-6pm, Monday-Friday with the awesomest burger around. And $12 Prime Rib on Tuesday. Print or show this ad on your phone for buy one, get one half off at Riverside, Sunday-Thursday, through February 28, 2014.

Random Morning Thoughts

Sometimes I want to slap people upside the head and say, “Wake up. Life is passing you by.” But that wouldn’t be very kind or compassionate of me. So I don’t do it. At least not literally.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It snowed. Yay! Hooray! Yippee! We’ll see more snow flurries on Mt. Hood today, with sunbreaks possible before 1pm or so. The snow level will be 1500-2000′. We’ll see trace accumulation during the day, maybe up to an inch. After 4pm, we’ll see .6-.8” water value (WV) for another 6-9” of light and fluffy powder. Wind today will be WNW 25-30 all day.

Tomorrow brings flurries all day with the snow level around 1500′ early, dropping to under 500′ in the afternoon. We’ll get .1-.2” WV, for a couple inches of new snow. Wind will be W 20 early and W 15 in the afternoon.

Saturday and Sunday look clear and cold with the free air freezing level around 500′ and light wind. It’s going to be fantastic all-mountain skiing on the weekend. Very, very busy times at the resorts.

Next chance for snow is, well, it isn’t in the forecast, yet. Maybe a few flurries Monday, and then we’re back to cold high pressure, assuming the long-range models are correct.

Gorge Weather

Morning weather check: Definitely not clothing-optional out there. Sweats, socks and hoodie was the perfect outfit. It’s cloudy and relatively mild with a light westerly breeze. Expect a few sunbreaks in the Gorge today with temps in the low 40’s all day. Rain increases after 4pm. Tomorrow brings showers and a few sunbreaks with temps below freezing early (watch for icy roads) and in the upper 30’s in the afternoon. Saturday looks cold with low clouds of some sort – whether they’ll be broken clouds or unbroken clouds, I’m not sure yet. Same goes for Sunday.

Gorge Wind Forecast

We’ll see leftover westerlies today in the 15-18 range from Hood River east to Maryhill. Tomorrow brings light west wind at 10-15 in the western Gorge. Saturday brings light east wind at 10-15. Looks like the next big wind event is during the middle of next week, when we’ll see very strong east wind coupled with sub-freezing temps. Might be time to break out the fur coat.

Road and Mountain Biking

It’s warm enough for a road ride today, and seeing as how it’s going to get colder over the next several days, today might be a good day for a road ride. Anyone have any mountain bike reports? I do keep forgetting to mention one thing: The old Buck Creek Loop has been reopened. Wow. That was one massive project. Thank you, trail fairy.

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

There’s pickup rugby tonight at Henkle Middle School at 3:30pm. Is that actually tonight? Or is that “this afternoon”?

The aPorkalypse is on February 7th. It’s all about bacon, and it benefits a worthy cause., Helping Hands. We need people to cook bacon appetizers, we need people to eat bacon appetizers, and we need people to write bacon poetry. So, mark the date on your calendar, and prepare to eat bacon. Email aporkalypsenow1@yahoo.com for tickets.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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There’s delicious food at Cebu and Riverside. Some time in the past month or so they completely changed the menu. It was lovely before, but now there are new delicious things to eat. Like a really yummy spinach salad. And pork ribs over polenta. And of course, there’s always the best happy hour in the Gorge, 4-6pm, Monday-Friday. And $12 Prime Rib on Tuesday. Print or show this ad on your phone for buy one, get one half off at Riverside, Sunday-Thursday, through February 28, 2014.

Random Morning Thoughts

Poor Parkdale. People must be really chilly up there this morning with no power.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

As anticipated, the bulk of this system came in as rain, 2.4” of it, to be exact. Temps are dropping on Mt. Hood now, and wet snowflakes are falling, but it’s too little, too late to salvage the day.

Tonight should be better. We’ll see the snow level drop from 5000′ this morning to 4000′ around 4pm and 2000′ around 10pm. Orographic flurries continue through 4pm, for .1-.3” water value (WV), for an inch or two of snow. After 4pm, much heavier precip moves in, for .8-1.0” WV and 6-9” of new snow. Night skiing should be delightful tonight, if you can handle some wind: Wind will be W 40 this morning, WSW 50 this afternoon, and W 40 overnight.

Thursday morning sees new snow on the ground with the snow level at 1000′ or so. Orographic flurries and sunbreaks continue all day, with just .1-.2” WV between 4am and 4pm, for an inch or so of new snow. Sun is probably more likely than accumulation, honestly. After 4pm, heavier snow starts, with .5-.7” WV overnight, for 6-8” of new by Friday morning. Wind on Thursday will be WNW 35 for much of the day, becoming W 30 in the afternoon.

Friday morning might bring a few more flurries, but it’ll be clear and sunny the the afternoon. The free air freezing level (FAF) will be 1500′ early, dropping to 500′ or less by mid-morning. Wind will be W 15-20 all day.

Saturday looks cold and clear, with the FAF at 500′ and light wind. Same for Sunday.

Gorge Weather

Sounds like Parkdale got hit with the freezing rain last night and lost power for a while. I’m wondering about Underwood, because I can’t see any lights up there this morning. Maybe the same? The rest of us escaped the wrath of the storm with just some rain. We’ll see decreasing showers this morning with the possibility for dry periods midday. Heavy rain returns around 4pm, lasting through the evening, and backing off after midnight. Temps will be in the low 30’s this morning, jumping quickly to the upper 40’s when the wind switches, putting an end to this freezing rain crap.

Tomorrow looks partly cloudy with a few showers during the day, becoming cloudier and much rainier after 7pm. The temp tomorrow will hover around 40 degrees. Friday looks cold – in the upper 20’s early and maybe climbing into the low 30’s in the afternoon. Chances are good we’ll see the inversion cloud return, but we can hope that doesn’t happen. Hope springs eternal.

Gorge Wind Forecast

Although the gradient was E .08 as I was writing the forecast, it will switch to west by 10am or so, giving us gusty westerlies at 16-21 in the western Gorge and 26-30 east of, oh, probably east of The Dalles, but maybe east of Lyle. We’ll start with leftover west wind at 21-24 tomorrow from Mosier to Maryhill, with 13-15 in the western Gorge. That wind will fade during the day. Friday starts with light west wind and switches to light east wind in the afternoon.

Road and Mountain Biking

So much for that. The trails are drenched today. Let them rest for a day, and then we’ll see how they recover from lots of rain and above-freezing temps.

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

There’s Karma Yoga, free or by donation, at 4pm at Flow Yoga today. At 6pm, you can play ping pong, $5, at the Hood River Armory.

The aPorkalypse is on February 7th. It’s all about bacon, and it benefits a worthy cause., Helping Hands. We need people to cook bacon appetizers, we need people to eat bacon appetizers, and we need people to write bacon poetry. So, mark the date on your calendar, and prepare to eat bacon. Email aporkalypsenow1@yahoo.com for tickets.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira