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Glaciers, skis and mixed precipitation. 11/24

Good morning!

There’s just about zero going on in the wind world for the next two days, so we’ll skip that.

Up in the mountains today, it’s sprinkling. That’s not my ideal weather situation, but maybe it’s yours. As of now, NOAA is calling for sunshine and spring skiing tomorrow, so if you have the day off work or school, that’s when you want to be on the slopes. Thursday starts out a dry, but by afternoon, snow starts on the hill, and continues through the weekend. It doesn’t look like tons of powder, but it does look like a few inches here and there.

There is a cool lecture tonight about Mt. Hood glaciers. Apparently it’s at the Extension office at 7pm. 386-3343 for more information.

Now, I have another missing gear announcement from my friend John:

“Lost, one pair of hand made skis. Ever dream of making your own skis? Well I do and I made my own. They rip or at least did. I was at pocket creek pushed low by the winds sunday. Upon returning to the parking lot I got involved helping a couple nice people without chains get turned around. In the excitement I got out of sequence and left my skis. After a second drive up the hill and much digging I came to the conclusion that some one picked them up and is trying to figure out who owns these easily recognizable skis. Hopefully this message will bring my skis home. I call them the raven arks…”

Thanks for your help finding these skis. And just so you know, in John’s shop class, he has kids make skis as a project. Now, that’s my kind of shop project. We just made paperweights and wooden eggs.

Have a great day!

Temira
johnskis

11/23 Forecast

Good morning!

Many apologies for the lack of a forecast yesterday. As many of you know, I work for Mt. Hood Meadows, and yesterday’s nuclear force mountain winds didn’t give me a chance to write a forecast. It’s such a bummer, because I should have said something about the wind up there and the wind on the water. Anyway, please accept my apologies. I will try not to have that happen again.

So, on to today’s forecast. At 5am, it was mostly clear skies up on the slopes and a perfect day for you to skip work. Meadows and T-line are open today, but Skibowl is closed Mon/Tue at this point. I’m going to suggest you check out what the storm left behind. I can’t promise you 23” of powder across the whole mountain. It was far too windy yesterday for that. But there are going to be super-awesome powder stashes, and super-cool wind features. It’s probably worth dragging a camera around with you today on the slopes, or at least bringing a cell phone camera.

The forecast for the next couple of days shows rain on the slopes, a huge bummer on top of all this new snow. Fortunately, models show most of the moisture heading north of us, meaning we’ll just get a dusting of the wet stuff. Wait, you can’t have a “dusting” of rain, can you? A brief shower? A??? I’m too tired to be creative this morning.

As for the wind in the Gorge, it’s not looking very promising for the next couple of days. There’s a chance of light easterlies tomorrow, and slightly stronger east winds on Wednesday.

Finally, we had two unique items stolen from the Hood River Snow Show on Saturday, and if you can help us look out for them, that would be great. The first is a pair of Black Diamond Megawatt skis (188cm, Blue/Black/White). The second is a Unity snowboard (164cm). Please see the pictures below. There is a reward for information leading to the return of the items. And to the person who stole them: you stole that gear from a fundraiser event, and it would be nice if you had the heart to give it back. No questions will be asked.

Have a great day today!

Temira
Megawatt snowboard