Velmonda

Hood River

Event Site · the Sandbar

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Looking at Thursday, October 22

No wind · W · 2–7 kn

No wind
“Go”: a rideable window long enough to count. “Marginal”: it might work, not for long enough to promise. “No wind”: nothing rideable today. “Not yet”: too far out, or the models still disagree. Drawn as an outline, never a colour. The small line underneath says where the number comes from: which models, whether they are corrected against wind measured at this spot, and whether what you see was measured or forecast.

The East Wind tops out at 2 kn. Nothing rideable today.

Model ensemble · tuned on 497 measured sessions here · forecast, not measured what that means

Same call as last night

0–2kn no window

The East Wind · E · Cross-shore 67°

Hour by hour
Each bar is one hour's forecast, coloured by your range: solid inside it, amber just short or gusty, muted outside. On a day nothing reaches your range, nothing takes a colour: there is data, and it is honestly short. Gusty hours are demoted: when the jump between mean and gust is big, an in-range hour shows amber. Here the spread, not the average, decides the day.

08:0014:0020:00

Peak 2 kn at 13:00. Nothing reaches your range today, so the strip stays uncoloured: there is data, and it is honestly short.

Why not
Two questions, answered separately: is the thermal setting up (the label), and does it build far enough for your minimum (the fill)? It can honestly set up and still stop short; then the gauge turns amber and the sentence names the gap.
Not setting up

peaks at 2 kn · 352 W/m²

cross-shore 67°

Wind angle

Cross-shore

67°

Water ~
~15°
Air
7°
Suit
4/3 and boots
Morning
11°
Midday
22°
Afternoon
24°
Evening
17°

Local knowledge

Down and out, the drift doubles: a rider in the water goes downwind AND downstream, and both point at the Hood River bridge. The current pushes underpowered and self-rescuing riders toward the pilings, which the guides call extremely dangerous. Sort yourself out well upwind of the bridge, and if in doubt, land on the Sandbar.

The Columbia is a working shipping lane: tugs and barges run the mid-river channel and do…

The Columbia is a working shipping lane: tugs and barges run the mid-river channel and do not manoeuvre for riders. Crossing toward the Washington shore means crossing the channel; look both ways and do not sit in it.

About riding Hood RiverHood River is the capital of North American wind sports, and the Event Site is its front…

Hood River is the capital of North American wind sports, and the Event Site is its front lawn: a grassy rigging field on the Columbia where the summer westerly blows against the current and stands the swell up into rolling lines. The wind is a pressure-gradient machine. Cool marine air pulls through the only sea-level gap in the Cascades toward the hot desert plateau, and the daily question is the one locals ask of the gradient: does it blow today?

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How good is this forecast±2.1 kn

Tuned on 497 measured sessions at this spot, average error 2.1 kn. The correction refits itself nightly. Averaged over every scored hour here, calm ones included. The per-wind rows on the full record are the numbers to plan a session on.

Full track record

Measured, never assumed: every forecast is frozen when published and scored against wind measured at this spot. The figure is the average error over recent measured sessions here, and no other spot's number is ever borrowed.

About this forecastModel ensemble · tuned on 497 measured sessions here · forecast, not measured

No live wind sensor here yet. The number above is forecast, not measured.

Water temperature is the seasonal average for this month, not a live reading.