Originally Posted by
mikemowbz
WRT the weather in the Columbia Gorge, do you mean that the area is prone to ice storms, properly speaking, or more that freezing rain/mixed precipitation means road/trail/sidewalk surfaces icing over (rather than accumulating snow)? Ice storms are nasty happenings.
As the Merz-meister said, ice "storms" are more likely and are not really in the cards this year. Two years ago we had several in the month of January which took a couple weeks to melt and the many roads were trashed by the freeze/thaw cycle. I've seen this more often than the frozen precipitation situation.
I wish I had had the time and energy to go for a ride this afternoon- the wind was calm and the sky cleared. I had a beautiful view of Mt. Hood on my drive home.