Mt Hood Weather

[Jeffery09]

Greetings!

 

Ill be in the Mt hood area with a few climbing buddies from the 18th -23rd this month. I have lots of experience climbing back east but the only PNW climbs I have is Rainier twice and St helens. I was wondering if some locals would like to chime in on reading the weather for Hood. Sounds a little bogus but small local detail can make a difference. Looking to summit early on the 19th if all goes well up the south route.Also, if anyone that has been up the route, how is the pearly gates looking??

 

Thanks

Edited December 15, 2013 by Jeffery09

[ivan]

looks to be a good chance the mountain will be socked in, but not so bad that you can't at least wander on up and see what happens - take a gps and/or altimeter and you ought not have any problems getting back to the parking lot - the south side's pretty tame, and i know many people have climbed it lately, so either the pearly gates or the old chute will go just fine.

[JasonG]

Everybody's guessing this far in advance. The NWS (Portland) long term fcst dicussion is probably as good a guess as any this far out:

 

.LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. THE EXTENDED PERIOD

BEGINS WITH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DROPPING DOWN THROUGH THE REGION

ALONG THE COAST. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA

ON WEDNESDAY ALONG WITH PRECIPITATION IN THE FORM OF WIDESPREAD RAIN

AND CASCADE SNOW. SNOW LEVELS WILL LOWER BEHIND THE FRONT WEDNESDAY

NIGHT AND SOME SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO THURSDAY UNDER NORTHWEST

FLOW ALOFT. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE CASCADE FOOTHILLS AND COAST

RANGE MAY ALSO SEE SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW...THOUGH THIS WILL DEPEND

ON THE FROPA TIMING AND MOISTURE EXTENT.

 

BY THE END OF THE WEEK...THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IN THE PACIFIC

IS CENTERED NEAR 140W KEEPING THE REGION UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT.

LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT MAY BE DRY AHEAD OF THE NEXT

DISTURBANCE THAT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH ON FRIDAY OR

FRIDAY NIGHT. FORECAST MODEL AGREEMENT DECREASES AT THIS TIME...WITH

THE 12Z GFS KEEPING THE BULK OF THE MOISTURE TO THE NORTH WHILE THE

12Z ECMWF MOVES THE SYSTEM INTO THE AREA FASTER AND WITH A MORE

WIDESPREAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION. WHILE THE DETAILS REMAIN A BIT

UNCERTAIN...THE EXTENDED PERIOD GENERALLY WILL BE COOL AND WET

ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. CULLEN

[Jeffery09]

Thanks for the help. Hoping the night of the 18th goes, as I am tickled to get down the the south sister area and then check out crater lake!