Mt. Hood Snow Forecast
Wednesday is starting off partly cloudy on the mountain. There may be a few sprinkles or a short shower mid-morning. After that, expect sunshine. The snow level today will be 10,000′ early and 12,000′ in the afternoon. Wind on the slopes will be SW 15 or so.
Thursday looks warm and sunny on the hill. If you’d like to work on your tan, Timberline will be a great place on Thursday! The free air freezing level will be 13,000′, and the wind will be light, just 5-10 out of the SSW. Continued after the chart…
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Friday looks warm and sunny for most of the day. Clouds move in during the afternoon, and a bit of rain falls overnight. The snow level will be 13,000′ in the morning, 10,000′ when the rain arrives, and 6000′ at the tail end of this weather system. We’ll see approximately .2-.5” of rain on Friday evening with a chance of a few wet snowflakes at the tail end. Wind on Friday will be SW 10-15 early, rising during the day to SW 35 in the evening and WSW 35 after midnight. Saturday looks sunny and cooler with the free air freezing level between 5500′ and 6000′ all day.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, finished
The next big system is forecast to arrive late Sunday. NWS’ area forecast discussion this morning talks about potential pass-level snow. In looking at the models, I’m going to have to disagree with that assessment.
As of this morning, models predict this very wet weather system stalling over OR/WA late Sunday through early Tuesday. This system will tap into subtropical moisture. Lots of warm subtropical moisture. The current 850mb model (~5000′) predicts temps of 4-8 degrees Celsius, far too warm for snow at ski area base elevations. If nothing changes in the storm track. Mt. Hood is going to receive 3-6” of rain between Sunday and Tuesday. There may be a few inches of snow down to 5000′ at the tail end of this system, but that’s about it unless something changes drastically.
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Gorge Wind Forecast
We have light and variable wind on the river to start Wednesday. That’ll be the case all day long, but the wind will pick up to E 20-25 this evening. Thursday starts with E 20-25 and drops to E 10-15 late in the afternoon. Friday looks like E 10-15 early and W 13-16 after sunset. The least windy fall on record continues…
Jones, Sauvie’s, Coast Beta Test Forecast
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Random Morning Thoughts
Election analysis this morning is focusing on a message of change. While “throw the bums out” may be part of what motivated so many people to vote last night, there’s more to the story.
Trump’s message of change includes specifics: banning Muslims from this country, deporting 11,000,000 Mexican-American undocumented residents (and 1,000,000 undocumented residents from other countries), and taking away health care from 22,000,000 people who were uninsured before the Affordable Care Act passed. Also implicit in Trump’s message is the normalization of hate speech and the objectification of women.
My non-White friends on Facebook are terrified. As a woman of Jewish ethnicity, I’m worried.
I’d like to encourage us to spend the time between now and election day contemplating how we will stand against hatred. We like to think that we’re better than “all those other places” that have oppressed, jailed and exterminated minorities. Unfortunately, we too have a history: we exterminated Native Americans, interned Chinese and Japanese, enslaved Blacks (among other atrocities). We’ve done it before, and it’s possible we will do it again.
Consider, just for a moment, this unlikely possibility. And decide what you will do if the worst comes to pass. Also consider what you will do now and in the next four years to help your non-white friends. Many of them are scared and hurting right now. The only way we can make America great again is to heal the divide. How will you help?
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist (but I could be 51 graduate school credits from now). I am your weather forecaster. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, and consult with your actual therapist about your mental health issues. One other thing: I plan to keep doing this forecast indefinitely, even when I am a therapist.
Gorge Weather Forecast
This morning started off beautiful, with multilayered pink clouds filling the sky. Keep looking at the sky today, and that’ll keep your chin up. Expect a partly cloudy morning with a chance of a few sprinkles. Sunshine returns for the afternoon. Temps will be in the mid 40’s early and the low 60’s this afternoon. Light wind. 2% chance of rainbows. Thursday may start off with the Nothing, but it should finish with the Sunshine. Temps will be in the mid 40’s early and the upper 50’s in the afternoon. East wind. No rainbows. Friday looks sunny early, cloudy by early afternoon and showery in the evening. Temps will be in the upper 40’s early and the upper 50’s in the afternoon. Light east wind early, light west wind later. 1% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Looks like it didn’t rain last night, and it’s looking like the rain will stay to the west of us this morning. That means you can ride perfect dirt until your legs are tired. I haven’t heard a report from the 44 Road trails, but with an inversion in place, it’ll be warm up there. Enjoy! In road biking news, we’ll have light east wind the next three days. Excellent for road biking.
Upcoming Events
It’s Wednesday morning. There’s community meditation at Flow at 8:15. There’s community yoga at the FISH food bank at 10am. There’s ping pong at the Hood River Armory at 5pm and Zumba at the Parkdale Community Center at 6:30pm.
Coming up Thursday, it’s “Rooted”, a story slam with tales from our local community. You can catch the show at Columbia Center for the Arts at 6pm. The annual Gorge Gear Swap, also known as the Ski Swap, is at HRVHS on Saturday the 19th. That same day brings a work party in Post Canyon.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
