Tuesday: my what a variety of precip types we have for the Gorge and Mt. Hood

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The Forecast

Snow level	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
Tuesday 5500′->8000′->4000′
Wednesday 4000′->5500′->3500′
Thursday 3500′->9000′

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

Hello skiers, riders, and Nordic folks! There’s some good-looking groom all across the mountains right now. Get it Tuesday morning before it gets buried by a wide variety of precip types. Be prepared to give some grace to the resorts again this week. It’s going to be another rough one. Being kind will make you and them feel better. Attacking the resorts and their staff won’t make you or anyone else feel better. Try it out. Thank them for their efforts at storm recovery and communication, and see how that affects your heart. We’re all doing our best to get the slopes open, and Mother Nature is doing her best to keep us from doing so. K? We good?

Wednesday starts out sunny and adds high clouds in the afternoon. Overnight? What a mess. Rain, freezing rain, and then perhaps some snow. This is going to ice up the lifts real, real bad. Expect 0.3” to 0.4” mixed wintry precip overnight. Wind: W 15 in the morning, SW 10-20 in the afternoon, and SW 25-40 overnight.

Snow starts the day on Wednesday, but that turns to mixed precip and then probably snow, but perhaps just snain. The snow level will be 4000′ early and will quickly jump to 5500′. Overnight, it falls to 4500-5000′. Any snow that accumulates will be quite wet. Prior to dawn on Wednesday, 0.6” water equivalent (WE) falls as snow and then mixed precip. During the day, another 0.6” WE is forecast as snow above 5500-6000′ and snain, rain, or ice down low (depends on whether there are pockets of cold air remaining at low elevations). Overnight: another 0.9” WE as mixed precip then snow. This is going to make a huge mess of the lifts. Again, show the resorts and their staff, some grace, please. Thursday: snow transitioning to rain. Lordy. What a week. Make the most of it!

Gorge Wind Forecast

Hi friends. Guess what? Easterlies! Tuesday brings 60mph all day at Iwash. Stevenson: 35-40. River flow Monday was 72-147kcfs, river temp is 40.46F, and high temp forecast is 16F. Wednesday starts with E50 at Iwash and E 35 at Stevenson. The wind drops to 15 at Iwash in the afternoon and 20-25 at Stevenson. Models suggest a period of westerlies from Iwash to Swell or Hood River overnight (25-30ish) which will be gone by the time you wake up Thursday. High temp: probably sub-freezing during the day, but probably popping above freezing overnight and dropping back to freezing in the morning. Thursday: light/variable at Iwash building to E 55 in the afternoon. East of Hood River: E 15-25. Stevenson: E 30. Hmph. That’s going to do some major damage after the ice storm. High temp: 30-something? I dunno. Too cold for me to get on the water!

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Hood River Weather Forecast

Partly Nothing, partly cloudy sky starts the day. Clouds move in. Snow starts an hour or two after sunrise. Then it switches to sleet then ice. Temps will be in the single digits early and teens in the afternoon and overnight. Easterlies. No rainbows. Wednesday stats with freezing rain and keeps at it. Models suggest a brief period of warming overnight (while you are asleep) prior to return to cold weather and more freezing rain. Easterlies. Strong westerlies possible overnight. No rainbows. Thursday, uhhhhhh… Probably freezing rain switching to snow. Easterlies. NO rainbows. This forecast isn’t detailed enough to capture it. Please read TATAS. See TATAS for full forecast. Please do not rely on this as your weather forecast. Read Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service on Facebook.

Local-ish Events

Please let me know of outdoor-related local-ish events. If you don’t tell me, I don’t know!

Amayah’s Indian Cafe (Biggs) offers a free meal every first Thursday from 1-4pm.

Regular weekly events:. NK Studio’s by-donation Tuesday morning yoga class is back. Ferment’s Tuesday night 4-mile walk/run is at 6pm. There’s meditation with monks at 5:15pm (an hour) and 6:30pm (30 minutes plus a talk) at Yoga Samadhi in White Salmon. The Tri Club is done for the season. At 7:15am on Wednesdays, there’s a run from the White Salmon Bakery. At 7am on Friday morning, there’s a run from Pine Street Bakery. On Fridays at 2:30pm, there’s a free meditation and stretching class at Yoga Samadhi. On Saturday at 9am, there’s a by-donation outdoor group fitness on the 2rd floor deck about Ferment Brewing.

Cycling

Regarding the trails in general: don’t ride in the mud. You’ll damage the trails. Don’t ride trails if it was below freezing the previous night and is above freezing when you want to ride. Ride gravel. Ride your trainer. Build trails. There are trail builders seeking extra hands on seven additional miles of trail on Whoopdee. Contact HRATS for more information. If you’re parking at Post Canyon, you will need a parking pass. Those can be purchased at many local shops or online.