Mt. Hood picked up a couple inches of new snow late last night and is starting off the day mostly cloudy. The mountain will see a few flurries mixed with clouds and sunbreaks today, with steadier light snowfall after 5pm. The snow level today will be 3000′ early, 5000′ in the afternoon, and 3000′ overnight. We’ll see .1” WV this evening, for an inch or so of new snow. Wind will be SW 10 in the morning, rising to SW 20 in the afternoon and evening. Continued after the chart.
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Mt. Hood Snow Forecast, continued…
Thursday starts off clear but quickly turns snowy, with the snow continuing through 10pm or so. The snow level Thursday will be 3000′ early and 4500′ overnight. Models suggest we’ll see .4-.5” WV between 8am and 5pm, for 4-5” of new snow. That’ll be followed by another .2” in the evening, for another 2” of snow. Wind Thursday will be SW 15-20 early, turnign to W 10-15 in the afternoon and WNW 25 overnight.
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Friday starts off partly cloudy and windy, with the possibility of a few lingering orographic snow flurries. The snow level will be 1500′ early and 6500′ in the afternoon. Wind will be NW 25-30 early, fading to W 10 in the afternoon. Saturday currently looks overcast to start with sunshine in the afternoon. The free air freezing level will be 6500′ early and 10,000′ in the afternoon with 5000′ ‘temps maxing out in the mid 40’s. Light wind.
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Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s a light and variable start to Wednesday here in the Gorge, and the trees are breathing a sigh of relief as they rest in stillness. Expect a light wind morning with W 5-10 after 2pm from Hood River to The Dalles. Thursday starts off light and variable as a trough of low pressure sits down on the Northwest, stifling gradients. As that trough slips quietly off to the east, the westerlies will pick up. You can expect W 10-13 from Hood River to Maryhill by 2pm, with a jump to gusty W 23-26 from Hood River (or maybe The Dalles, yeah, that, more likely) eastward to Arlington after 4pm or so.
Friday starts off quite windy, as low pressure sits in the desert and high pressure settles off the coast. Unfortunately, that offshore high will be competing with an offshore low (if nothing changes). That will give us gusty westerlies at 24-28 pretty much all day long from Mosier to Arlington. The Viento to Swell stretch will probably join in late in the morning or early in the afternoon as clouds burn back toward Portland.
Looking at the extended (and mostly useless) forecast, Saturday looks light, Sunday looks like E 25-30 at Rooster, and Monday, which looked like a west wind nuker yesterday, now looks like a light wind day. See why you can’t trust those long-range models?
Random Morning Thoughts
I wanted to talk a little more this morning about self states and our ways of being in the world, but then something far more important came up. NWS IS GOING TO STOP TYPING THE AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION IN ALL CAPS!!! Yes, this is big news. The forecasts have been in all caps since the 1800’s. Not only have they been in all caps, but they haven’t used apostrophes, commas, or semicolons; punctuation marks just haven’t been a part of the weather discussion.
This makes me sad, as I have a fondness for the semicolon. According to The Google, the semicolon joins two parts of a sentence, thus giving them equal weight. In interpersonal terms, the semicolon creates a relationship where both people have their ideas and thoughts respected. A semicolon is the punctuation equivalent of equal pay for equal work. A semicolon ends bigotry, ends power differentials, and ends income inequality. Long live the semicolon!
Back to NWS and those capital letters… it’s been a long time coming. The internet age knows that caps are the equivalent of yelling. But change takes time, as we all know. All we can do to move the world forward is keep changing things that are out of sync with the times. Clinging to the past and holding on to the old can often be motivated by fear. But stepping into the future can often create new connections with others – just imagine how many new friends NWS will make when they stop yelling all the time! Have an awesome day!
Disclaimer required by my grad school program: I am not your therapist. 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.
Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s mostly clear outside this morning, and that’ll be the story through early afternoon. Then we’ll see clouds move in with rain in the evening and overnight. Temps will be in the mid 40’s early and the low 60’s this afternoon. Light wind. 26% chance of rainbows. Thursday looks showery and cloudy in the morning and partly cloudy with showers and a chance of thunder in the afternoon. Temps will be in the low 40’s early and the upper 50’s in the afternoon. Light wind early, moderate wind late. 87% chance of rainbows. Friday looks partly cloudy to start, quickly becoming all-out sunny. Temps will be in the mid 40’s early and the upper 50’s in the afternoon. Moderate to strong west wind. 2% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Looks like we had just a couple hundredths of an inch of rain last night here in Hood River, which won’t be enough to have much of an impact on the trails. That means there’s still good dirt out there for you to enjoy today. I’m still waiting for a Nestor Peak report… anyone? Anyone driven to Kingsley? In road biking news, it looks great until early afternoon. Light wind. Thursday morning also looks good, and Saturday looks downright awesome with light wind and temps hitting 70 degrees.
Upcoming Events
Today is Wednesday. There’s meditation at Flow at 8:15am, there’s community yoga at the Heartgate Sanctuary in Oak Grove at 8:30am. This evening brings you ping pong at the Hood River Armory at 5pm, the women’s Post n’ Pinot bike ride at Dirty Fingers at 5:30pm, and Aikido at Trinity Natural Medicine at 6pm. Looking ahead to the weekend, the Sandy Ridge Super D is on Sunday. I suppose it’s worth noting that this is the last week of midweek skiing at Meadows, and that Skibowl is done for the season.
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