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The Forecast

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast – 5000′
	4a-8a	8a-12p	12p-4p	4p-8p	8p-4a
Tuesday 0′->4000′->0′
Wednesday 0′
Thursday 0′

Mt. Hood Snow Forecast

A nice big snowstorm is planned for Mt. Hood today and tonight. We transition to dry weather on Wednesday followed by a bit of snow on Thursday. Sadly, that snow transitions to rain overnight Thursday and stays in liquid form for a while. Get it while you can!

Tuesday kicks off with a few inches of new snow and relatively mild temps. The next system, a colder one, moves in tonight and dumps a lot of snow. The snow level near Mt. Hood will be 0′ this morning (but it’s 28F up there), 4000′ this afternoon, 1000′ in the evening, and 0′ after midnight. Thank the orographics for the incoming snow totals. Daytime: 0.2-0.5” water equivalent (WE) for 2-4” new. Overnight: 0.7” to 1.2” WE for 8-13” additional snowfall that starts dense and turns fluffy. Wind will be WSW 30-40 this morning, W 55 this afternoon (potentially shutting down lifts), WNW 40 in the evening, and NW 20-30 overnight.

Wednesday will be clear in the morning, high overcast in the afternoon, and cloudy overnight. The free air freezing level will be 0′ all across the land. Wind: NW 20-30 in the morning, variable to 20 in the afternoon, and E 10 overnight.

Thursday starts cloudy. Snow starts up mid-morning and transitions to mixed precip in the evening. Overnight, the mixed precip switches to rain. Precip amounts are totally unclear at this point due to model spread, as are the wind speeds; they depend on the depth of the cold pool. So… that’s Thursday. Rain continues, on-and-off, through the weekend. In other words, get it now while you can!  

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Tricky forecast today as an incoming low runs up against entrenched arctic air. The day starts with E 20-25 from Rooster to Viento with 5-15mph easterlies all the way east to Arlington. Most likely scenario is a switch to W 15-25 from Rooster to Cascade Locks, perhaps to Viento this afternoon. Models actually disagree on what the wind will do to the east. If this system, which does have a lot of power, can scrub out cold air, the wind will turn westerly deeper into the Gorge. I think probably it won’t. So, expect easterlies east of Hood River all day.

Wednesday’s forecast is more clear. Cold air surges in from the north. The first sign of this is easterlies at 10-20mph east of The Dalles. Those push westward during the day. By late afternoon, we’ll have E50 at Rooster, E 40 at Cascade Locks, E 25 at Viento, and E 10-20 to the east. Thursday: E 60-90 at Rooster (depending on the depth of the cold pool). E 40+ at Stevenson, E 30 at Viento, and E 10-15 to the easy, all day long. Friday morning sees lesser easterlies, perhaps 30-40, but it’s really too far out to know for sure.  

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Hood River Weather Forecast

Clouds and a few flurries this morning could give way to freezing rain, then rain, then flurries this afternoon, but it really depends on how much cold air gets scrubbed out. Temps will be in the low 20’s early and who the fuck knows later. Light easterlies early. Unknown winds later. Hence the temp forecast problem. Unknown rainbows. Wednesday will be dry and cold. Temps start in the low 20’s and rise to the upper 20’s or low 30’s. Mostly clear sky gives way to high clouds. Moderate easterlies. No rainbows. Thursday will be cloudy and cold-as-fuck (less than 10 degrees) to start. Temps only rise to 10F or so. Snow moves in late morning. Depending on the depth of the cold pool, we may or may not see a transition to sleet overnight. Easterlies. Blizzard warning west of Hood River. No rainbows.

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Local-ish Events

Please let me know of outdoor-related local-ish events. If you don’t tell me, I don’t know!
Regular weekly events: Monday brings forest bathing and meditation walk. Meet at 5:15pm Mondays in November at the corner of Arrowhead Ave and Indian Creek Road. Suggested donation up to $20. Ferment’s Tuesday night 4-mile walk/run is at 6pm. 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 Friday’s at 2:30pm, there’s a free meditation and stretching class (brand new) at Yoga Samadhi. There’s a weekly group paddle to the Event Site on Sunday at 11 am followed by a free pint at the fire pit at Ferment. That’s the “Paddle n’ Pint”. Also: Wednesday Paddle Sprints at the Event Site at Noon. The sprint course is 2 two laps around the sailing buoy near Wells Island and back – 3.5 miles.  

Cycling

Now it’s snowy on the trails! We’ll keep the freeze/thaw language just in case the snow goes somewhere (which it won’t any time soon). If you ride trails that froze and then thawed, you’ll do major and probably permanent damage to the tread. The Family Man closure kicked off on November 1st – the area around Family Man and Riordan Hill Road will be closed into December. Upper elevation trails, above 4000′, are likely to have some snow coverage. If you’re riding Post Canyon, you will need a parking pass. Those can be purchased at many local shops or online.  

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