Greetings and welcome!
It has ben a very different week than last week. We have had rain, snow, winds, and haven’t made it into the 50s yet this week. I was driving home from work early week in a hard wind driven snow and it was accumulating a little on road shoulders. I thought to myself, wow that was a fast summer.
I did wake up to a light snow on the car the next morning, but it never really accumulated. Wednesday we had off and on snow showers that would suddenly snow pretty hard with gusty winds, and just as fast it wasn’t snowing. Again it didn’t accumulate here, but places in the UP and Vilas Co saw upwards of 4″.
With lows in the mid to upper 20s the wood burner has been gobbling wood again. Likewise plans to turn off the heater in the well house were delayed for another week.
Today the clouds parted and it was a little nicer. The ever present wind was again with us, but the sun and lack of precip made it feel a lot better.
The weather will calm down for tomorrow and the weekend. We are actually expecting to get into the 50s and with nice weather. Sunday could get into the 60s, and after that we should see more normal or even above normal temperatures.
The grass is really greening up now. It isn’t time to cut grass yet, but it is an ideal time to clean up before the grass sprouts really get going.
Cleaning up the yard brings the urge to burn brush, but be careful. The fire danger is at moderate and will rise over the weekend. We have a lot of dead grass from last year that is always a danger in the spring. The TV news this morning said that we are at 60% of normal precip since January 1 and 80% of normal for April, so it is a lot drier than usual. Be careful with your fire.
The road weight restrictions have been lifted for all of the county roads as of Monday. You could tell too. There were dump trucks, excavators, loggers, and all kinds of big trucks on the roads. It is good to see those folks get back to work.
The ATV trails in the area will open Friday May 1st according to the Dun-Good and Red Arrow web sites. (Covering Goodman-Dunbar and Townsend-Lakewood respectively.) Again people will be happy to be back on the trails.
The opening of game fish season should go better than usual. The lid of ice is long off of the lakes, and the water is warmer than usual for this time of year. This week didn’t help, but last week sure did. Some years we worry if the ice will be out by the opening of fishing, this isn’t one of them.
The days are much longer now. It is 8pm and still a little light out. That sure beats December when the sun sets at 4:17 or something like that. Once we see 60s next week it will be nice to have a couple of hours of light and decent temperatures after work.
Well time to get back to work. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB
I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate your updates. We bought our property in Silver Cliff early last year, and since we live a in Oshkosh, it’s so wonderful to be able to get updates on the weather, road conditions, etc. So THANK YOU!