It’s an ill wind that blows no good.
I couldn’t even think of riding the Three Capes loop tomorrow, because it conflicted in a fairly fatal fashion with Silas’s eighth birthday party. But clouds loomed on the western horizon…
Issued by The National Weather Service
Portland, OR
9:05 pm PDT, Fri., Apr. 2, 2010
… WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT SATURDAY ABOVE 1500 FEET FOR THE NORTH OREGON COASTAL RANGE AND THE WILLAPA HILLS…
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ABOVE 1500 FEET FOR SNOW REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT SATURDAY.
SNOW LEVELS… SNOW LEVELS AROUND 1500 FEET.
ACCUMULATIONS… STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL RANGING FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES NEAR 1500 FEET ELEVATION… TO 4 TO 8 INCHES CLOSER TO 2500 FEET ELEVATION.
IMPACTS… ACCUMULATING SNOW ON THE HIGHER PASSES SUCH AS HIGHWAY 26 THROUGH TONIGHT AS SNOW LEVELS FALL BACK DOWN TO 1000 TO 1500 FEET.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES… AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
… SNOW LEVELS TO LOWER AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING…
… and the April 3 schedule for the brevet was abruptly snow delayed …
Well, yes, it’s not much of a silver lining – 30-odd people, many from not around here, and many more tweaked their schedules so they could do a nice springtime deathmarchette out to the coast and back now (or tomorrow) are instead looking at either not doing it or having to rearrange next weekend on a moments notice. So it’s mainly a great and terrible loss –but I wanted to run this loop, and not as a permanent (300km on virgin territory all by myself has the potential of being a fairly grim ride from about 100km out to about 200km out) and thanks to this bizarre spring weather I can actually consider doing it.