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Wind forecast guess paragraphs

If you’re a windsurfer or kiter or downwind SUPer, you will like today. If you happen to be battling fires or under an evac order, my thoughts are with you. We have a solid marine layer this morning and west gradients of .07 and another .07 out east. This starts us with WSW-westerlies at 21-23.

A front approaching the coast combines with high pressure down south and a low off Vancouver Island for westerlies at 25-29 after 11am today. Expect the strongest wind to be at Stevenson and Doug’s, with gustier conditions near Hood River (which won’t stop me from sailing near the Hatchery). I expect the Maryhill section to hit the mid-twenties and the far east to be in the low twenties. If you’re a cyclist or part of a fire crew, expect the upper valleys and ridges to be windy too, with gusts over 30mph.

Tomorrow sees a strong marine push as a coastal trough shoves clouds across the Coast Range. We’ll start with 15-18 and see 21-24 in the afternoon as a weak system pushes inland. Sunday starts with 15-18, but as that previously mentioned BC low pressure system moves inland, we’ll see a short-lived, but strong, late-day burst of SW wind in the hills and W wind on the river.

Don’t forget: It’s time to nominate folks for the Gorge Windsurfing Awards.
You can do that at CGWA’s website through the 28th. Your award choices are: Dale Cook (big air), Grom of the Year, Windsurfer of the Year, Most Selfless Windsurfer, and Most Stoked.

Also, don’t forget that new windsurfing windows are 15% off this month at Northwave if you mention “that darn chick Temira and her totally inaccurate forecast”.

Today’s Gorge Wind
Your favorite beach	Dawn Patrol	9am- 11:30a	11:30a- 3pm	3pm- dusk
Steven’s Locks	20-23	20-23	24-27	24-27
Hatch (subtract a few mph for Event Site)	20-23	22-25	25-29	19-23
Doug’s / Rowena / Lyle	13-15	21-23	25-29	25-29
Maryhill / Rufus / The Wall	13-15	15-18	25-29	24-27
Arlington / Roosevelt	13-15	15-18	24-27	24-27

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Sports, activities, and other stuff

In Cascade Locks tonight, it’s Movies in the Park at Marine Park, showing Wreck-it Ralph, starting at dusk. Hood River’s movie tomorrow night, at Jackson Park, is Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. These are the last movies of the season, so be there.

Coming up this weekend, it’s the Bigfoot Bash and Bounty in Home Valley all day on Saturday. Also on Saturday, CGWA is making another attempt at running the King of the Hook. It’s old-school windsurfing competition starting at 5:30 Saturday. Then on Friday through Sunday, it’s the White Salmon summer concert series with a campout, poker, music, a pig roast, and a salmon feed, brought to you by several local business and my favorite mayor, Dave. Sorry, Arthur, but you didn’t get me free tickets to a pig roast.

Fire Information

The Mt. Hood National Forest has closed the following trails: Surveyor’s, Oak Ridge, 8 Mile, Zig Zag, Da Kine, Knebal, Bottle Prairie, Dog River… basically, anything north of the 44 Road is closed. The 17 Road between Surveyor’s and the 44 Road is closed, and they’ll be conducting back burns along that road today. The not-yet-open SuperConnector trail is also closed. Closure map is here.

Why? During the east winds over the last couple of days, the fire jumped the western fire line and grew in a westerly direction. The crews are attempting to establish a new fire line on the west side of the fire. If you want to see the fire boundaries, head here for all 12 maps associated with the fire.

Have an awesome day today!

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This is Temira!

Thank you all for your donations and kind words during last month’s pledge drive. Whew. Glad that’s over. I always feel a little weird asking for donations. That said, should you like to get on the daily email list (where you can occasionally win cool stuff), please take the time to click on the sun below and make a donation of $12 or more. That gets you a year’s subscription, and it makes me smile, because I know then that the hard work I put into this is worth a lot to you. Thank you for reading my work, and thank you for donating. Have a wonderful day!

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Be safe, fire folks. Today looks a little scary in the afternoon.

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Wind forecast guess paragraphs

Today is starting off smoky, with a light east gradient keeping more smoke flowing into the valley. We’ll see the light wind hold through early afternoon, when an approaching low bumps the HR/Steven’s Locks area up to 15-18. As this system moves through sometime after 2pm, there may be a brief period of strong SW wind both on the river and up in the valleys and on the ridgetops (that’s for the fire folks), but likely you windsport people won’t see the affects of this system unless you’re east of The Dalles, where there will be a brief period of 25-35.

Tomorrow starts with more marine clouds, cooler temps and less smoke, with west winds in the 10-15 range. The wind will quickly pick up to 25-29 near Hood River (and probably Mosier), filling in at Doug’s/Lyle/Rowena in the afternoon. The wind will pick up in Steven’s Locks after the clouds burn back.

Saturday starts with even more clouds and W wind at 10-15. As an upper low pushes over Vancouver Island in the afternoon, the wind will pick up to gusty 23-26 from Hood River to Arlington. The wind at Steven’s Locks depends on when the clouds burn back, but it should equal the wind everywhere else.

For you windsurfers, it’s time to nominate windsurfers for the Gorge Windsurfing awards. Your choices are “Dale Cook – Big Air”, Most Stoked, Most Selfless, Grom of the Year, and Windsurfer of the Year. You can nominate folks through the 28th. Voting commences after that.

Today’s Gorge Wind
Your favorite beach	Dawn Patrol	9am- 11:30a	11:30a- 3pm	3pm- dusk
Steven’s Locks	E 5-10	LTV	W 15-18	W 17-20
Hatch (subtract a few mph for Event Site)	light	W 0-10	15-18	15-18
Doug’s / Rowena / Lyle	light	light	15-18	15-18
Maryhill / Rufus / The Wall	light	light	15-18	23-26* See above
Arlington / Roosevelt	light	light	15-18	23-26* See above

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Sports, activities, and other stuff

If you want a hard bike ride tonight, join Dirty Fingers for the Post and Pint. It’s 2 hours of mountain biking in Post Canyon followed by food and drinks at the shop. Dirty Fingers wants you to do this ride so badly that they’ll give you a free beer if you come and finish the ride. Bring $5 for delicious food by 4&20 Blackbirds after the ride.

In other bike news, there are 3 trees down on Dog River and 3 or so on Surveyor’s. None on Three Corner Rock, and the swimming holes on the Washougal are great. But it’s very smoky on the 44 Road trails right now, and you cannot access Knebal Campground by road, so you may want to ride elsewhere.

Want something to do this weekend? Head to Home Valley for the Bigfoot Bash and Bounty, an all-day celebration of all things Bigfoot. If you’re headed there, or if you’re headed out to the woods to look for Sasquatch, keep one thing in mind: it’s illegal to harm a Bigfoot in Skamania County. I know. You’re getting tired of hearing about it. Well, I think it’s funny, so you’re going to hear about it daily.

All weekend long, Friday through Sunday, White Salmon has their summer concert series. Join the Friday night campout, and then hang around Saturday for poker, a car show, and a pig roast and salmon feed.

The King of the Hook longboard freestyle competition that was supposed to take place whenever it was supposed to take place has been rescheduled for this Saturday at 5:30. 5:30-8. Bring something to throw on the BBQ.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira