Tag: powder

Please support this forecast by clicking on the photo of the forecaster!

Your forecaster. Click on her to donate. Thank you!

Thank you for using this forecast. Please tell your friends about it! And if you or your friends think this service is awesome/useful/saves you gas money/makes your life more fun, make a donation by clicking on my photo above. Is more fun worth $50/year? $20/year? Donate what it’s worth to you (and thank you!), but $12 minimum gets you on the email list (with occasional giveaways) for a year. Thank you for your support, and have fun today!

Rad local business. Please support it.

There’s delicious food at Cebu. 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 price (50% off) lunch or dinner, Sunday-Thursday, through February 28, 2014.

Random Morning Thoughts

You really, really, really should drive up Post Canyon or Riorden Hill Road to 2500′ or so and see the rime ice this morning before the rain knocks it down.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

It’s drizzling on Mt. Hood this morning. Hmph. We’ll see the free air freezing level (FAF) / snow level around 8000′ today, lowering to 6500′ around 4am Wednesday. We’ll see .1-.3” water value (WV) fall as drizzle before 4pm. After 4pm, the rainfall rate picks up, for another 1.5” of rain overnight. Wind will be SW 15-20 for much of the day, picking up to SW 40 late tonight.

By 4am Wednesday, the snow level will be at 6500′. It will fall to 5500′ by 7am, 4000′ around 1pm, and 3000′ tomorrow night, dropping all the way to 1500′ by Thursday morning. We’ll see .6” WV early Wednesday morning. That will fall as mixed rain and snow, for 1-2” at 5000′ and a bit more higher up. After 4pm, another .5-1” WV comes in (it’s a little soon to be more precise), for 6-10” of new snow by Thursday morning. Wind on Wednesday will be SW 40 early, becoming W 40 by 7am and holding for the rest of the day.

Thursday sees the snow level at 1500′ with a few orographic flurries possible all day long. Wind will be W 30 early, dropping to W 20 midday. Friday looks partly cloudy with light wind with the FAF below 2000′.

Gorge Weather

It would seem that we have a bit of a problem here. The east gradient isn’t going anywhere, and there’s a lot of moisture coming in after 4pm today. That east gradient will keep cold air pooled in the Hood River Valley (it’s in the 20’s in Parkdale and 33 at the Columbia River this morning), and that moisture is going to fall as freezing rain, at least in the colder areas. Not good. Not good at all.

So, for today, expect clouds and intermittent very light frozen drizzle, drizzle, sleet, or flurries (depending on where you live). Then tonight, expect heavier freezing rain in cold pockets and heavy rain in warm pockets. The cold air should get scoured out between 4am and 10am tomorrow.

After 10am tomorrow, expect partly cloudy, west-windy weather, becoming more cloudy and rainy after 4pm. Temps will be in the low 30’s early, jumping quickly to the upper 40’s as the wind switches from east to west mid-morning. On Thursday, we’ll see partly cloudy weather with light, intermittent sprinkles and light west wind.

Gorge Wind Forecast

It’s nuking. Again. 25 at Stevenson and 48 at Rooster with a E .19 gradient. The wind will slowly drop to 26-30 at Rooster today. Tomorrow starts off light, probably light east, picking up to W 26-30 east of Mosier with gusty W 17-23 in the western Gorge. Thursday brings leftover westerlies at 15-18 early, fading in the afternoon.

Road and Mountain Biking

You know how I said it was too cold to go biking yesterday? I didn’t take my own advice. I rode up to the top of Borderline, where it couldn’t have been warmer than 25 degrees. I was freezing, but it was worth the 5-minute screamy-pukie hand thaw. Actually, my hands still hurt. Anyway, the rime ice in the trees is so thick it looks like it snowed a foot. And there are places where the rime ice is 4” deep on the trails. I had my best pow turns of the season on my bike yesterday. I don’t recommend it. Well, I do highly recommend you go up there before the incoming rain knocks all the ice down. But don’t take your bike. Go hiking.

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

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

This evening brings the lovely $12 Prime Rib at Cebu. And pickup Rugby at Babe Ruth Field at 5:30. And Kayak Polo at the Hood River pool at 8pm.

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

Please support this forecast by clicking on the photo of the forecaster!

Your forecaster. Click on her to donate. Thank you!

Thank you for using this forecast. Please tell your friends about it! And if you or your friends think this service is awesome/useful/saves you gas money/makes your life more fun, make a donation by clicking on my photo above. Is more fun worth $50/year? $20/year? Donate what it’s worth to you (and thank you!), but $12 minimum gets you on the email list (with occasional giveaways) for a year. Thank you for your support, and have fun today!

Random Morning Thoughts

You know it’s a rough morning when neither the coffee nor the Rockstar is working. I think I need a vacation, or at least a day off.

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

Today looks like one last sunny day on Mt. Hood. Enjoy it. Clouds will move in mid-afternoon. The free air freezing level (FAF) will be 9000′ with temps in the low 40’s at 5000′. Wind will be NW 10-15mph.

Precip starts around 1am Tuesday. At that point, the snow level will be around 6500′ with temps above freezing in a narrow band between 5000′ and 6500′. This looks like a pretty classic sleet and/or freezing rain setup to me. The FAF and snow level will slowly rise to 8000′ by 4pm. In that period, we’ll see .1-.3” water value (WV) that falls as anything-but-snow. After 4pm, precip increases with the snow level at 8000′ initially, falling to 6500′ by 4am. We’ll see .7-1.0” of rain during that time period. Wind will be S 20 in the morning, SW 25 mid-afternoon and SW 40 overnight.

Wednesday starts off with the snow level around 6500′. We’ll see it drop to 3000′ by 4pm and 1000′ by Thursday morning. During the 4am-4pm time period, we’ll see .5” or so WV which will start as rain and switch to snow, giving us a couple inches of new, maybe – models are disagreeing about when exactly the temp will drop. Wind will be WSW 45 early Wednesday, swinging to WNW 35 mid-morning and holding for the rest of the day.

Thursday looks clear and sunny and cold with 30mph NW wind and the FAF around 1500.

Gorge Weather

There is no weather in the Gorge. There is only the Nothing, sapping the life out of everything it touches. The Nothing stays camped in the Gorge today, setting up an unpleasant round of weather for tomorrow. So. Cloudy sky, temps in the low 30’s.

As warmer, wetter air moves in over the top of the entrenched cold air tonight, early tomorrow, actually, we’ll see some precipitation. It’ll likely start as snow, given how deep the cold layer is, but then it’ll switch to sleet and then freezing rain. The first round of precip, between 1am and 4pm tomorrow, doesn’t look too bad – just a tenth or two of water value.

Tomorrow afternoon and evening are the problem. If the temps don’t climb above freezing – and they are unlikely to, given the massive east gradient and strong east wind – we’ll have .2-.4” moisture to contend with. Odell and Parkdale will take the brunt of this, but Hood River could, depending on timing, get a nice coat of ice too. Or maybe everywhere will warm up above freezing by tomorrow afternoon. We can only hope.

The temp will surely be well above freezing by Wednesday morning. Rain showers continue through early afternoon, tapering off to partly cloudy sky late in the day. Thursday currently looks sunny. Cross your fingers.

Gorge Wind Forecast

Yet again… it’s nuking. 31 at Steven’s Locks. 51 at Rooster. The gradient is E .23. We’ll see this wind hold pretty much all day. Easterlies continue tomorrow at 35-45 in the morning (hence the problematic precipitation forecast) backing off to 24-28 in the afternoon. As the cold front finally swings through late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, we’ll see the easterlies switch to westerlies at 23-26, picking up to 26-30 east of The Dalles in the afternoon.

Road and Mountain Biking

Brrrrr.

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

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

There’s indoor Ultimate tonight at Horizon Christian School at 8pm. And 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