Tuesday June 16th, Thursday June 18th, 2015
Greetings and welcome!
I did write an update Tuesday but fell asleep before finishing/posting it.
First up I didn’t like the forecast and thought that it would change. It did, but only a little. Friday looks great, Saturday we are expecting rain, and Sunday should be a decent day again. Right now my hope is that Saturday’s rain will hold off until later in the day.
I was kind of expecting Tropical Storm Bill to move things around in the forecast models a little but the outlook didn’t change much. Unfortunately there is still that chance of rain Saturday.
I didn’t get to whitewater rafting before ending Tuesday’s update. In short, it is excellent after all of the rain. The rivers aren’t out of control high, just at a really fun level. If you have ever dragged your boat across the rocks in a low water summer, try it now. Both the Peshtigo and Menominee Rivers are at ideal levels.
Something else to add.. the bugs. We are not short on mosquitoes or wood ticks, bring the Repel.
Nature has her own answer to ample mosquitoes.. the dragonfly. I have been seeing plenty of those both here around the house and in my travels. Last night up by Townsend I ran into a whole cloud of them. I would bet that the bats are getting fat this year too.
Saturday is the Muscle Maniac’s Car show in Lakewood. They have some nice cars. If the weather smiles on them, it should be a good show.
That is it for tonight. Read on for Tuesday’s update. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB
Tuesday’s unfinished update..
Greetings and welcome!
Last weekend didn’t end up very good for weather. When we last visited I was expecting heavy rain Friday and Saturday and rain later Sunday. As it turned out Friday was nice and the rain came and stayed Saturday and most of Sunday.
It didn’t rain all day Saturday, but it was misting or drizzling all day. There probably wasn’t much dust on the ATV trails last weekend. Sunday brought more rain, but it ended late morning and by mid-afternoon it was a nice day.
Monday brought more rain. Friends in Wabeno reported heavy rain pounding the roof. In Wausaukee it wasn’t anything special, just a couple of hours of showers.
I was in for a surprise when I got home from work. The driveway showed runoff paths from the rain, and the hill washed out pretty bad.
Last week I set a 5 gallon bucket out in the yard to measure Friday’s rain. I measured almost an inch between Thursday and Sunday afternoon, and almost 2″ of rain Monday. It only rained for a few hours, it must have been a very intense line.
I am not going to spend a lot of time on the late week forecast today. Tropical Storm Bill is coming ashore in Texas and as it works its way across the Midwest it will affect our weather at a distance.
Right now the GFS is showing rain tomorrow and again over the weekend. In recent runs the models have been showing different ideas, including weakening both areas of rain. At one point the GFS was showing 4+” of rain for northwestern WI tomorrow, but has backed off a little. The tropical storm throws in an extra dynamic, so the forecast has a lower than normal confidence level.
Maybe it would be best to leave the weekend forecast bake for a few days and see how it turns out as the weekend gets closer.
The rain has definitely stimulated the plant growth. The ferns are showing a lot of progress, and are starting to fan out. Cutting the grass once a week isn’t quite enough and you can’t see very far into the forest any more.
I saw a lot of deer along the roads this morning. I think that the very damp night that left the car dripping with dew might have gotten them moving around to shake off the wet morning.
When I pulled into the driveway after work the neighborhood doe and fawn scurried away. I got a pretty good look at them, and the fawn has grown really quickly in the past few weeks. The wobbly legs are definitely gone.
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