Good Morning Sailors!
I hope everyone enjoyed a few hours of east wind sailing yesterday. I'm curious if anyone sailed the coast, where buoys were reading 21 feet at 12 seconds and 40+ knot winds. Sounds like fun to me!
We're looking at a few days of flip-flops (I wear size ten bumpy locals, if you were wondering) here in the Gorge. We'll start today with west winds accompanying a frontal passage. Sailable conditions could pop up from Doug's eastward, with winds hitting the 22-25 range if we're lucking. If you're desperate, keep an eye on iWindsurf or windonthewater.com for current windspeeds.
Late tonight, high pressure builds over eastern Oregon, turning gradients easterly (flip-flop) again. This doesn't look like a massive east wind event, but kiters could be having a fine time tomorrow.
Friday morning sees high pressure building over the coast, sending gradients back to either zero or light westerly (flip-flop number 2).
Saturday likely will see the start of the week-long countdown to the Three Rivers Two-For-One Steak Night, promised to begin with the first inversion. With high pressure building over all of Oregon, and high temperatures aloft, fog drifts into the valleys and stays there:
UPPER RIDGE GETS FAIRLY STRONG OVER AREA SAT. WILL HAVE
TO PLAY AREAS OF FOG FOR VALLEYS WITH WARM AIR ALOFT AND LONGER
NIGHTS. INVERSION NOT LIKELY TO TOTALLY BREAK INLAND VALLEYS SAT
KEEPING VALLEYS FROM REACHING FULL TEMP POTENTIAL WHILE COAST...
COAST RANGE AND FOOTHILLS SEE VERY WARM TEMPS.
If the inversion happens as predicted, watch for solid east winds at Rooster Rock (flip-fop number 3). It seems NOAA is telling us to go surfing on Saturday. I might just have to take the weekend off and head to Pacific City (yes, I'll be back for the no-longer-secret party on Sunday - you guys are too sweet!)
Everyone have a great day today! I'm off to the gym for a little workout before working!