July 2020

Friday 7-31-2020

Greetings and welcome!

We have at least a half nice weekend ahead. Saturday should bring nice weather with high temperatures in the low 80s. Saturday night and Sunday there is a chance of rain.

This week we again marked about 2″ of rain. Most of that came last Sunday and just a little fell Monday.

The whitewater rafting continues to be completely off the hook fantastic. The USGS gauge on the Peshtigo River has been keeping records for 22 years. Normally today the mean flow is 247cfs, almost too low to raft. The record high for today in those 22 years is 375cfs. Today it is at 885cfs. That is about a +13″ on the bridge gauge, a very fun level at any time of year. To have it happen August 1st is unheard of.

The Menominee River is also well above normal. The gauge has been there for 27 years. Today’s mean flow in those 2 years is 1,510cfs, and the max is 2,590. Today the river is running at a record high of 2,910, down from being over 5,000cfs earlier in the week.

Whatever the river, the whitewater rafting is fantastic right now. Call Kosir’s 715-757-3431.

I get that a lot of people aren’t into that kind of adventure. How about checking out some waterfalls? Those rivers are at record high levels too.

We have some live music this weekend. Saturday afternoon the Rustic Inn is having music outside. Saturday night it is at Parkway Inn with bluegrass from Denny who play with the Insomniac Gypsies. That starts at 6pm.

Next weekend would normally be the Silver Cliff picnic and parade. The parade is off, but they are still having a picnic with a drive-thru where you can get burgers and brats as a fundraiser for the VFD and rescue. I will try to nail down more details this week.

That is news for this week. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Friday 7-24-2020

Greetings and welcome!

We have a beautiful sunny morning this morning. It looks like a nice day ahead.

This is the first time in quite a while that I will be reporting less than an inch of rain for the week. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s is reporting 0.8″ for the past 7 days. I recall when I did rafting pictures @ Kosir’s I was always happy if we saw at least an inch of rain a week. Recently it has been 2, 3, 4″ or more for the week.

Looking at the river gauge I see that we are in for another fantastic weekend of whitewater rafting on the Peshtigo River. Right now it is running at about a +18″, much above normal. The typical flow of the river for today based of 22 years of records is about 236 cubic feet per second (CFS). I consider anything above 300 the fun zone for anyone.  The record high for today is 450CFS. Today’s flow of 1,060CFS shatters all previous records by more than 2x. While the Peshtigo River is normally getting a little rocky right now, that isn’t the case this year. Go rafting this weekend, it will be a blast. Call Kosir’s @ 715-757-3431.

We have a hot and humid weekend coming up. I am expecting highs in the upper 80s or low 90s. The NWS forecast is for some showers or storms Saturday night and a chance of more Sunday afternoon. Honestly at this time of year a hot n humid day can stir up a shower or storm just about any time. I wouldn’t change plans over it, but be ready for anything.

The only event that I know of this weekend is a brat fry Saturday from 9-2pm at the Lakewood Super-Valu store benefiting the MS Society.

That is about all that I have this morning. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Thursday 7-16-2020

Greetings and welcome!

I am sorry that I missed last week’s update. I had hoped to do it Friday but the world had other ideas. That isn’t going to happen this week.

Item one- This is traditionally the hog wrestling weekend at the Caldron Falls bar. The bar sold and hog wrestling is gone forever. They are having a car show Saturday and calling it the Burnout Bash. Expect a lot of nice cars and the standard live music and lots of people.

Also happening this weekend there is a flea and farmer’s market in Crivitz at the Evergreen Marketplace just north of the Chevy dealer on Friday and Saturday.

There is a brat fry from 10am-2pm Friday at Lakewood Super-Valu benefiting the Paul Bunyan Riders snowmobile club.

We have had a very wet week again. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s marked 2.5″ for the week, with 1.5″ of it coming yesterday alone. Based on what I saw on radar returns some areas will have quite a bit more rain than that, probably more like 4+inches.

A couple of things related to that.. Item one is that the Peshtigo River where they do the whitewater rafting is absolutely ripping. Right now the river is at +25″, a level they are happy to see in spring with the snow runoff. Yesterday’s rain hit their watershed pretty good, so I expect it to stay close to there or maybe even go up a little for the weekend. You can’t get more adventure than this for what $30? Come see why this river is world famous. They will be using big boats with a guide in them and 4 or more people. Call Kosir’s @ 715-757-3431.

Along that same line driveways  and ATV trails have been getting washouts and huge puddles of standing water. My driveway hill is messed up pretty bad. The ATV trail between Hwy I (Parkway north) and Fox Lake Rd in Silver Cliff had a bad washout too. Here is a pic from Facebook..

The weather this weekend will be hot and humid. There will be a chance of storms daily with the summer weather. Right now the best chance looks like Saturday night.

I believe that there are more events this weekend and I will try to get a handle on that. Right now I have to run off and take care of business.

Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Porterfield Cruisin’ Oldies is this weekend.

Woodtick festival has been cancelled due to some heavy handed Michigan government threats about their COVID restrictions.