GORGE WIND FORECAST
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today’s gorge wind forecast
Hi friends! Another windy, gusty day is on tap as instability lingers in the Gorge and disrupts the wind field. Thank the cross-Cascade temp gradient and offshore high pressure for the fun you’ll have today. Also know that instability makes the Gorge wind forecast tricky and downright unreliable; thunderstorm locations and their impact on the wind are impossible to predict. Instability exits east tomorrow and leaves us primed for four more days of strong westerlies. Hopefully you’ve been training all summer for this stretch of wind!
Thursday started off with lots of convective debris in the sky and these pressures: 30.05/29.92/29.87. Gradient math: 0.13 (PDX-DLS) and 0.05 (DLS-PSC). Those numbers scream “go anywhere!”. Caveat: instability will be everywhere, and the wind is likely to be gusty. Early wind was up-and-down 20-23mph from Viento to the Hatch with 13-16mph east to Doug’s and less than 10mph in the desert. Stevenson: 10-13mph to start. Marine clouds made it as far as Vancouver this morning.
The GFS gives us a steady build to 25-28mph from Viento to Avery by late morning or early afternoon with 21-24mph at Stevenson and 22-25mph at Rufus early afternoon. Hold out a little longer, and you’ll have 28-31mph from Mosier to Arlington with gusty 20-24mph between Stevenson and Hood River. All that is predicated on lack of thunderstorms. They could shut things down at any time. River flow over the last 24 hours was 95-197kcfs (103-189kcfs at Rufus), river temp is 72.3F (poor salmon), and high temp forecast is 84F for Hood River and 92F for Rufus.
RIVER FLOW FOR SITES BETWEEN AVERY (EAST OF THE DALLES) AND RUFUS: CLICK HERE FOR JOHN DAY DAM FLOW.
RIVER FLOW FOR SITES BETWEEN STEVENSON AND DOUG’S BEACH (WEST OF THE DALLES): CLICK HERE FOR THE DALLES DAM FLOW
tomorrow’s gorge wind forecast
Instability shifts east of The Dalles on Friday, low clouds push into the far western Gorge, and heat lingers in the desert. Dawn patrol potential is good: 25-28mph from Viento to Mosier with 22-25mph from Lyle to Arlington and 16-19mph at Stevenson. Westerlies hold through the morning. Models knock the wind down from Swell to Hood River in the afternoon (17-20ish) and take it up to the east: 26-29mph from Mosier to Avery with 23-26mph from Celilo to Arlington. Remember that those Rufus-Arlington sensors read high compared to Swell: 30 at The Wall is like 23ish at Swell. High temp: 86F for Hood River and 92F out in the desert. One last thing: atmospheric instability will persist in the desert, and that could make the wind particularly gusty. Wait, one more thing: the Hood River Bridge will be CLOSED from 11am to 1pm on Friday for a bridge lift.
extended Gorge wind forecast
The weekend looks windy. There are sailboat races happening in between the Hatch buoy and the Hood River Marina both days. Please consider recreating elsewhere. If you choose to recreate there, stay out of the race course and give way to racers. Saturday starts with 21-24mph from Viento to Mosier and rises to 24-27mph as far east as Rufus. Sunday: likely windier and gustier as a trough approaches from the NW. This sends cool air into the west side, reinforces it during the day, and generally makes for a very windy day. Even windier conditions are forecast on Monday as a deep marine layer settles in west of Hood River. All eyes are on Rufus that day, although it’ll be windy pretty much everywhere else too. All righty… off to spellcheck and get this forecast out to you. Have a great day on the river!
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JONES BEACH, SAUVIE ISLAND, & COAST FORECAST
Wind northerly unless otherwise indicated. For coast, it’s North/Central/South with the “central” at approximately Florence. Swell forecast from NWS for central coast. Jones: westerly unless otherwise stated. Sauvie Island: northerly unless otherwise stated. Coast Thursday: NW5-10/NNW15/N25, W swell 2′ at 7 seconds. Friday: NNW10-15/15/25-30, W 2′ @ 7. Saturday: 10-15/15/25-30, W 2′ @ 7. Jones Thursday: 21-24. Friday: 20-23. Saturday: 19-22. Sauvie Island Thursday: 10-13. Friday: 8-11. Saturday: 11-14.
BARE BONES HOOD RIVER WEATHER FORECAST
Mixed clouds this morning, chance of thunder, less clouds later. Temps start in the mid 60s and rise to the mid 80s. Strong westerlies. No rainbows. Friday will be mostly clear then clear. Temps start in the low 60s and end in the mid 80s. Strong westerlies. No rainbows. Saturday will be mostly clear then clear. Temps start in the low 60s and rise to the mid 80s. Moderately strong westerlies. No rainbows.
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HYPERLOCAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE COLUMBIA GORGE
THE DALLES, HOOD RIVER, WHITE SALMON, TROUT LAKE, STEVENSON, CASCADE LOCKS, PARKDALE, ODELL, HUSUM, BZ, MILL A, WILLARD, GOLDENDALE, RUFUS, ARLINGTON, boardman
Good morning, neighbors! It’s Thursday morning, and sleep didn’t work so awesome last night. Coffee isn’t working awesome yet either. Can’t guarantee the accuracy of this sleepy-TATAS forecast. Sleepy TATAS are TATAS that aren’t perky. Sleepy, like awakey, is just a natural part of life as is the cycle of TATAS being perky and then not-so-perky. Weather this week: thunderstorm chances today, relatively cool through next Thursday, then rather uncertain. You’re probably wondering what’s up with today’s picture. I open 41 windows to do the forecast, and one of those windows has lots of webcams. What’s not to like about a bunch of seabirds sitting on a roof soaking up a cloudy coast morning?!?!
glenwood this morning
So let’s say hello to Glenwood, as we always do. Those folks started the day at 55 degrees. In numerology, 55 signifies life changes, adventure, freedom, and self-determination which seems to describe folks in Glenwood.
today’s gorge weather forecast
The rest of us started the day between 55 (Trout Creek Ridge Road) and 77 (Rowena). Thanks to cloud cover, temps probably won’t hit the forecast maxes today. The forecast is 84 on the west side, 91 in The Dalles, and 98 out where the watermelons grow. Thunderstorm chances linger today as a weak little nudge comes from a weak little system that moves south from the hippie zone near Ashland, through the hippie zone of Eugene, and north through the Gorge. West wind will be 20-25mph from Viento to Mosier to start the day and 25-35mph from Stevenson to the Arlington parallelogram to finish up. We can’t rule out raindrops. Nor can we rule them in. Last thing about today: thanks to evening clearing on the west side, a stellar sunset is likely.
friday’s gorge weather forecast
Instability shifts east of The Dalles on Friday – thunderstorm chances are non-zero, but they’re also far from 100%. The day starts with temp around 60 and finishes up in the mid 80s to low 90s. West of Wyeth, there could even be a few low clouds in the morning! Another windy day is on tap: 25-30mph all day west of Lyle and 25-30mph in the afternoon as far east as the Arlington hexagon. West side clouds clear out in the evening and set us up for yet another spectacular sunset.
extended gorge weather forecast
The weather settles the F down on Saturday as instability exits the region and marine air slides in from the west like a centipede slithering into a hotel bed on Maui. Another windy day is on tap. Highs will be in the mid 80s to the west, near 90 in The Dalles, and 95 way out in the desert. Temps slide a few degrees Sunday as cool air approaches the coast. Another very windy day is on tap. Ditto on Monday, when high temps fall to 85 or less even in the desert. Brr! Wind: nuking, which is Johnny-speak for “very strong”. Cool weather persists through next Thursday (probably), after which a warming trend is likely (we gotta get back above normal at some point) but lots of uncertainty exists in the details.
Hmm. All those words and all that typing and all the coffee I’ve been drinking did not succeed in waking me up fully. Maybe the Gorge wind forecast will wake me up? (update: it did not) Safe travels. -TATAS
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