Greetings and welcome!
It was a wild weekend around Kosir’s. The weather wasn’t very nice at times and it added to the adventure. The river was running big though and a lot of people got great a run through the rapids.
For what it was, Saturday wasn’t too bad of a day. It was around 40 and overcast with some snow. There wasn’t too much wind, and that helped a lot. The snow kept coming, and Sunday found us with a inch or two by afternoon.
Sunday morning the wind kicked up and the snow was blowing around. At times it was intense, other times the clouds would part, the wind would calm, and it was petty nice out. Then the next big blue cloud would blow in and bring more gusting winds and snow. With temps in the upper 30s and a sharp wind, it wasn’t nice out for a lot of the day.
There were a lot of people rafting this weekend in spite of the less than ideal weather. We had the DPoD group, a large group that has been coming rafting in April for many years, a scout group, and others too.
The weather wasn’t nice but the river was, and people stuck it out and ran the rapids. They were rewarded with the Peshtigo running between 16-18″. There were quite a few flips and swims, and some epic burials and wipeouts.
I brought home a lot of nice pictures and had a lot of fun with the slow motion replays in the videos. I will look into getting some video posted later in the week. In the meantime here is a photo gallery that I posted yesterday.
Michelle from Firelane was funny when she posted this on her Facebook page..
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You don’t know how true that is..
We are under a Winter storm watch at the moment. It looks like another southern storm is heading our way for Tuesday night and Wednesday. It could be a nasty one for us.
There are a variety of scenarios being offered by the models and forecasts. The North American Model is showing us seeing 1-1.5″ of rainfall equivalent, and yes most would be snow. The GFS and HPC are pushing the storm south and showing it a little less intense, dropping the QPF to the .5-1″ range.
The TV weather channel is showing us in the area between 6.5-9″ of wet heavy snow and is running warnings about power outages and broken tree limbs.
The NWS has issued a winter storm watch and is expecting about 6-10″ of wet heavy snow. They are uncertain of the storm path at the moment, but the best scenario has it hitting north and west of Green Bay.
The TV weather channel just updated their forecast at 5 pm. Now they have us in the 4-7 band and areas between here and Lake Winnebago in the 6-10 band. It looks like they have the storm going south more and bringing us a little less snow.
Not to worry, there are several more big storms on the 16 day outlook, include one possible for late week.
That is about it for today. Have a good week and thank you for visiting!
RJB