Good morning sailors!
I took my own advice yesterday and sailed at Rowena. It was the right call for strong winds, but the river was choppier than Saburo's Sushi on a Saturday evening. With my head pounding and ears ringing, I left the water and wandered the parking lot looking for someone for an Arlington carpool. Nobody would go. They were all too tired from chop suey city. I don't know if anyone made it out there, but the sensor was reading 34 late evening, so it must have been amazing.
Speaking of the ex-mayor of Arlington and her itsy-witsy-teenie-weenie-non-polka-dot-bikini, we're starting the day with dawn patrol at Arlington. I was sure we've have the Doug's Beach dawn patrol, but the marine layer foiled that plan. Clouds cruised all the way to Maryhill overnight. Gradients were crushed by the incoming clouds, and models present a lackluster picture for today. Best winds remain east of the cloud line (yes, that means Arlington), but speeds aren't going to make it to the driving threshold for me. Look for 24-27 at Arlington. Central Gorge sites see gusty 17-21 under cloudy skies. If, and this is a big if, clouds dissipate this afternoon, corridor sites may see 23-26.
If you only have one day to play out of the next three, make it tomorrow, and find a carpool partner. If you need a partner, post a reply to this forecast at temirawagonfeld.com/windblog and leave some sort of contact information. I'm trying to turn the website into a carpool resource. I need your help to do that. As you may have guessed, Arlington is the call again tomorrow. As a(nother unseasonably cold and wintryly annoying strong and wet) front passes tomorrow morning, gradients skyrocket, sending eastern sites into a swell-filled frenzy. 30ish is the call out there. Kiters... Stevenson? Wakeboarders... not going to happen.
Wednesday looks like continued westerlies. Mother Nature takes a break from punishing us. One day of sunshine and corridor winds is our respite before she sends more cold, wet weather our way.
Maybe Julia can tell us what we did to make Mommy Nature so mad?
Have a great day everyone!
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