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Mt. Hood Weather Forecast
It’s Thursday morning, and Mt. Hood starts out powdery today. There will be plenty of sunshine as well. Friday brings in clear sky followed by a trace of overnight precip. Saturday starts out dry and then turns super windy with heavy precip. By Sunday afternoon, we’re into a four or five day dry stretch.
Details for Thursday: partly cloudy sky early quickly turns clear and then stays that way for a sunny day on the hill. Free air freezing level: 1000′ early, 2000′ in the afternoon, and near 0′ overnight. No accumulation of snow. Wind: NNW 25 early, N 15 in the afternoon, and NW 25 overnight.
Friday looks partly cloudy early, snowy in the afternoon, and mixed-precipy overnight. The snow level will be near the surface early, at 1000′ in the afternoon, 4000′ around midnight, and 8000′ after midnight. Models suggest a trace to 0.2” water value (WV) of precip overnight, most likely starting as snow and then switching to freezing rain or mixed precip. Let’s call it 1/2” to 1” of snow before the switch. Wind will be NW 25 early, WNW 15 in the afternoon, and W 20 overnight.
Saturday morning looks mostly cloudy and friendly on the mountain, but Saturday night looks like a wicked storm. Snow level 8000′ early, 4500′ in the afternoon, and 1000′ after midnight. It’s worth noting that the models do disagree on the 5000′ temps, meaning that the snow forecast is tricky. Precip totals from 4pm Saturday to 4am Sunday look like 1.0” WV to 1.4” WV. Given the model disagreement, this is just a guess, but let’s call it 6-10” of snow with a definite period of rain or mixed precip. Wind will be W 20 early, W 50 in the afternoon (which will shut down many lifts) and NW 30 after midnight. The rise in the snow level will likely result in significant icing on lifts overnight, leading to a giant mess on Sunday morning.
Sunday looks partly cloudy with a few snow flurries. The snow level will be 1000′ early, 1500′ in the afternoon, and 0′ overnight. Precip: 0.1” WV during the day, for up to 1” of new snow. Wind: NW 20 early, NW 25 in the afternoon, and N 20 overnight. The weather then looks to stay dry through Wednesday.
Gorge Wind Forecast
For Thursday, the day starts with up-and-down westerlies at 5-10 or so. The wind builds to W 13-16 from Stevenson to Mosier by late morning with light westerlies farther east. Friday brings light west wind in the morning and light east wind in the afternoon. Saturday looks calm in the central Gorge all day. The far west Gorge will see gusty 15-25 out of the west. The far east Gorge will see gusty 18-22 in the afternoon. Westerlies fill in to all locations overnight.
JONES, SAUVIE’S, COAST: now on vacation for the fall and winter. Will return in spring.
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Gorge Weather Forecast
There are clouds to the west and clear sky to the east this morning. That’s our day – plenty of sunshine. Temps will be in the low 40’s all day. Light to moderate westerlies. 83% chance of morning rainbows. Friday looks partly cloudy and then cloudy with sprinkles overnight. Temps will be in the low 30’s early and near 40 in the afternoon. Light and variable wind. 5% chance of rainbows. Saturday looks mostly cloudy during the day and quite rainy overnight. Temps will be in the mid 30’s early and mid 40’s later. Calm wind becoming westerly. 18% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Stay off the trails – it’s too muddy. Even if you have a fat bike. You’re damaging delicate dirt and undoing the hard work of many, many volunteers. Syncline is freeze-thaw, and therefore extremely delicate, above the fence. Please don’t ride it or you’ll do major trail damage. The Power Station has a really wonderful virtual bike setup. I know it’s not the same, but it’s better than damaging the dirt.
Upcoming Events
There’s by-donation yoga at 8am at Flow. That’s followed by $5 Tai Chi at the Hood River Adult Center at 2:30, community yoga at 6pm at Samadhi in White Salmon, and free Tai Chi at Our Savior Church in Bingen at 6. There’s Zumba at Mid-Valley elementary at 6:30. At 7am on Friday, there’s the Kickstand Coffee Run, where jogging or walking 4 miles gets you a free cup of coffee and a donut. There’s a by-donation yoga class at Yoga Samadhi at 4:15 on Friday afternoons.
Random Morning Thoughts
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Have an awesome day today!
Temira
