Sunday April 3rd, 2011
Greetings and welcome!
The morning brought about 2.5″ of snow. Due to the temperatures being fairly warm, it stuck to the trees making it pretty.
While I was getting ready to snap a picture of the wintry scene, Chris spotted an owl in a tree over the wood shed. I snapped the first one through the window, and managed to open it for the second one. He didn’t stay long after that.
I saw him Friday too, but only as he flew away when I opened the door to go outside.
The snow was the first wave of the storm. Farther south they had severe thunderstorm warnings around Green Lake County, where a cell of storms was bringing high winds, lightning and heavy rain. That initial wave has passed, and now we are expecting the bulk of the storm to be rain. There is a good chance that the very end of it might bring some minor snow accumulations.
After the storm clears out about Tuesday we are expecting a warmer week. High temperatures should be in the mid-40s working their way up to the 50s for late week and the weekend. There is a pretty decent storm on tap for about Friday, but the current GFS shows us between storms for Saturday. Saturday night brings some rain, but it is shown clearing out Sunday morning.
We did not kick off the whitewater rafting season at Kosir’s yesterday as hoped. The cold week kept the river frozen up as well as all of the wetlands that feed it.
The river has cleared out a lot right by Kosir’s and there are big ice chunks floating down it. Some of that came when the river fell sharply as a result of the cold weather. The ice was unsupported and broke down a little.
The river is still very frozen up in spots. We should see some progress on that with the warmer temperatures and rain this week. Will it be enough to get us out there for some rafting next weekend? Probably, but we will have to wait and see. You can monitor the progress here and on the Kosir’s web site, and the guys have some recent pictures on the Kosir’s Facebook page. I do expect a lot of changes to the Peshtigo River this week.
The driveway was pretty muddy yesterday, with some pretty deep stuff in the sheltered areas. The snow has melted off leaving water and ground soggy with melting frost. Some sunny areas are getting firmer, the shaded areas were the deep ones.
That is about it for today, have a good Sunday and thank you for visiting!
RJB