Greetings and welcome!
It feels a lot like summer around here. We have been having warm and humid days with temperatures in the 80s and close to 90. It is a little better today, but you still know that it is summer.
A couple of days ago I was stopping to take a picture of the flowage and it looked really hazy. That was smoke from some big Canadian wildfires. The map that I saw showed them about 300 miles north of Minnesota’s western border. That same smoke adds a brown and orange character to the sunset and the other day there was a hazy halo around the late afternoon sun.
When it is hot out it is fun to get wet. The rivers are still in good shape. The Peshtigo is at about 325cfs, about a plus 1. That is still in the fun zone for rafting and tubing. I have watched this river for 30 years and I don’t recall ever having it not hit zero by mid July. It is getting close, but normally it would have been a month or more ago. Between the heavy snow and the wet spring it has been quite a year.
We have not had much rain this week. There was a chance of rain yesterday and even the possibility of severe weather. It was a hot day with plenty of convection, but it just never quite came together. We could have used the rain. When I was on a gravel road yesterday it was pretty dusty.
This weekend we have a chance of rain Friday afternoon and Friday night and that is about it. After that we are looking at a sunny weekend with temps in the mid-80s and a low Saturday night of 55. Next week we are in for more hot and humid stuff.
This weekend’s events include the Athelstane VFD picnic on Saturday and the Lakewood Mardi Gras parade and picnic (Link). I am sure that there is another event this weekend but I am stumped at what it is. I will have to check posters when I got to the store.
That is about it from here. I am off to go and play outside cutting the grass and working on the AC in my car. I am pretty sure that I will want both done when it gets hot and humid next week.
Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB