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Now, your forecast:

Good morning and sorry for the late forecast. I got home last night from Cathy Carter’s birthday party (see Cathy, it’s not over yet!) and was immediately attacked by a nasty cold virus. You know… dizziness, aching muscles, blah blah… collapsed on the couch and just woke up. So anyway, here’s your forecast:

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Yesterday was our big wind day for the week, and now we’re back to lighter westerlies. We’ll see 14-17 in the western Gorge this morning with 10-13 out east. In the afternoon, we’ll see 22-25 from Mosier to Maryhill.

A low pressure system crosses the Cascades tonight, setting up another windy day tomorrow. The wind east of Mosier starts off at 15-18 tomorrow, building to 19-23. Models are all over the place on Friday, but the weather is supposed to be much nicer across Oregon, so the wind will be lighter. We’ll probably see 10-15 from Stevenson to Hood River on Friday, with temps climbing into the mid-seventies.

If you’re getting tired of Julyuary and cool weather, you can take heart, because the weekend is shaping up to be beautiful, with high temps in the upper seventies.

For all you cyclists out there, including the family who crushed me riding Seven Streams yesterday, especially their daughter who really crushed me, don’t forget about the movie Bicycle Dreams playing at Columbia Center for the Arts tonight. And if you’d rather ride than watch a cycling movie, today is the ladies-only Post and Pinot and tomorrow is the co-ed Post and Pint, both leaving Dirty Fingers at 5:30.

Also this evening you can join the sailboat races out of the Hood River Marina, you kayakers can join the Kayak Shed’s shop paddle, meeting at Husum at 5:30 and running the lower and middle white Salmon.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Now, your forecast:

First: Happy birthday to Cathy Carter!

We’ve had light and gusty wind for much of the last week, but things are going to pick up today. We’ll see wind in the upper teens to low twenties from Hood River eastward this morning, but starting early afternoon, head east of Mosier for 28-32 on the Columbia. I have multiple reports that the current at Maryhill, even though it’s still strong, has dropped enough that the swell is back in that section of the river. Today might just be the day to check it out!

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If you’re heading east, keep an eye on the radar images. There’s some heavy rain falling east of Hood River, and you’re not going to want to start driving until that rain is well east of where you’re headed.

Speaking of heavy rain that fell over the east part of the Cascades for the last 12 hours, if you ride Surveyor’s/Knebal/8mile today, please let me know how it is. I’m pretty sure the radar image showed it pouring up there last night, and I’m thinking it could be pure awesomeness. Okay… back to the wind forecast…

Tomorrow brings the leftovers from this system, with gusty 13-15 in the western Gorge and 17-21 east of The Dalles.

It looks like we’ll see clouds Thursday morning with west wind in the upper teens from Hood River eastward. Then as the upper low moves toward eastern Washington, the wind will pick up to the 22-26 range east of Mosier.

Coming up tonight, it’s your chance for a book reading and talk by Jon Bell, author of “On Mt. Hood.” That’s at 7:30 at Columbia Center for the Arts. Jon’s a pretty cool dude, so if you’re not at Cathy Carter’s birthday party, you should be at CCA tonight. And tomorrow night at CCA, it’s the movie Bicycle Dreams, the story of the race across America.

And speaking of bicycles, tonight is the Tuesday night triathlon practice at the east end of Hood River’s event Site. Tomorrow night is the all-ladies Post and Pinot, and Thursday night is the original bike n’ beer ride, the Post and Pint. Both those rides leave Dirty Fingers Bike Repair at 5:30.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira