Greetings and welcome!
Friday the 13th in 2020? Great.
I skipped last Friday’s update because it was 70 degrees outside. We had about a week in the 70s, which was 15-20 degrees above normal. After October being 15-20 degrees below normal and windy and rainy, I had a month of outside work to do in a week.
The nice weather brought some oddities. One was the lady beetles in November. The next one caught me by surprise. For several days the roads were all wet even though it had not rained. My guess is that the frost was coming out of the ground and the moisture was condensation like you get on the outside of a glass with a cold liquid in it.
Small ponds had skinned over with ice and that was long gone by the end of the week. Last year you could walk a little way out on the ice on the lakes.
The nice weather broke earlier this week and the big change was announced by a couple of inches of rain. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s has been winterized, and I didn’t catch the radar estimates, so I am down to guessing. I would put it at about 2-3 inches. Right now the Peshtigo River is running at almost 1,200CFS, much beyond its normal flow of about 300CFS. I would guess it to be at about a +16.
Ditches and low lands are very full of water. Between the wet October and the big rain at the beginning of the week the whole area is well saturated with water. People planning on hunting swampy areas might be surprised by how much water that there is.
Yesterday got into the low 40s. It was a shock after the 70 degree weather. Last night it started raining after sunset. Eventually that rain turned to big goose down flakes. There is a layer of white on the grass this morning. The sun has eaten some of it. It did melt on contact with the sidewalk. so roads are likely just wet.
I have not looked into a deer hunting week forecast yet.
Work is calling so time to run along. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB