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Good morning!

There’s a stalled front well south of Mt. Hood this morning, and that’s giving us some high clouds, but we should see filtered sun or straight up sunshine today. The free air freezing level will rise to around 5-6000’ with the sunshine today, hopefully thawing out the ice on the ground. NW winds will slowly decrease today, dropping to 15-25 by 2pm.

Tomorrow starts off clear, with high clouds moving in by 2pm. The FAF starts at 500’, rising to around 5000’ in the afternoon. Winds will be NW 15-25 all day. We’ll see a couple inches of snow overnight tomorrow night.

Tuesday looks cloudy early with clear skies by noon. Winds will be NW 20-30 early, going to W 10-15 by 2pm.

Wednesday looks clear and sunny.

The wind forecast is starting to look good as well. High pressure sets up over the Pacific with a low pressure trough along the coast. Without daytime heating, we won’t have super strong westerlies, but there will be enough wind for sailing the next few days. The gradient is at .08 this morning, so give it a couple of hours and we’ll have 17-21 from Stevenson to the Sandbar, filling in to Doug’s and Maryhill this afternoon in the 18-22 range.

Tomorrow starts off with light wind, but it will pick up to 17-20 from Stevenson to Hood River by 1pm. Doug’s and Mosier see 22-25 in the afternoon.

Tuesday looks light as high pressure builds across the Cascades.

Tomorrow and Tuesday look windy at the coast as well, with 25-30 at Pistol and 20-25 at the central coast with a 5 foot SW swell at 9 seconds.

Sailboat racing season starts this Wednesday.

Have a great day today!

Temira

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Good morning!

This is the kind of forecast that isn’t fun to write.

It’s raining on Mt. Hood this morning. Well, technically, it’s rain at 5000’ and freezing rain around 6500’. The rain will continue through noon or so, and the snow level will be dropping as the day goes on. The snow level will drop to 5000’ by 11am and slowly fall to 2000’ by 11pm. Models say we’ll see less than .25” of rain, but the front is stalled directly over top of Mt. Hood, meaning we could see double that. Along with the delightful precipitation, we’ll have winds at W 30-40 early, dropping to W 25-35 by 2pm.

Start praying for sun tomorrow, because the temperature will drop overnight with no new snow, leaving us with the free air freezing level at 500’ and a skating rink on the slopes. The weather tomorrow will be partly cloudy to sunny, with NW wind at 20-30 in the morning, dropping to 15-20 by 11am.

Monday looks sunny and cold. The snow level will be at 1000’ early, rising to 3000’ in the afternoon, with hopefully enough solar radiation to corn up the slopes. Clouds and flurries will move in by 4pm, for less than an inch of new. The wind will be NW 15-25.

Tuesday looks partly cloudy, becoming sunny, with the free air freezing level at 500’, rising in the afternoon with sunshine. The wind will be NW 10-20.

Today is the Post Canyon cleanup from 9am-noon, so head to the bottom of Post Canyon road to give back to your favorite trail.

If you’d like to windsurf or kite, you’ll find 17-20 east of The Dalles today, with light, gusty westerlies in the Corridor. If you’re going out, remember that all the rivers are high and there will be lots of flotsam in the water. Be careful out there. Westerlies continue tomorrow with 17-20 near Hood River. Same goes on Monday.

Have a great day today!

Temira

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