Pi Day

Greetings and welcome!

Yes it is Pi Day- 3.14. I told Chris to come back in 5 years and I would be impressed, 3.14.15 @ 9:26 and 53 seconds. (3.141592653)

It is a blue ribbon Pi day indeed. The dreariness from last week has gone away. The rain, fog, wind and all of that stuff has been replaced by a sunny & 62 T-shirt day.

We are going to see a good bit of that this week, with today, Wednesday and Thursday holding promise of more of the same. Thursday could actually threaten 70 if everything lines up right.

Tuesday is the outlier, when higher pressure than we have now moves in, creating a minor disturbance. My maps are showing the sprinkles/light rain mostly in western WI, but the NWS is still predicting a chance of isolated showers and a cloudy day for us. Wednesday won’t be quite as warm, but it will be ramping back up for Thursday.

For the weekend we are looking at a gen-U-ine southern storm. This one could get interesting. When I looked last night the GFS was showing a path that would be favorable for good bit of rain, followed by a chance of 4-8″ of snow about Sunday with more possible Monday. I have my doubts, but that is what it is showing me.

We have some events this week. Monday brings the Crivitz Recreation Association banquet. That is a little like the Iron Snowshoe banquet with lots of raffles and nice prizes, dinner & happy hour.

Wednesday brings the wearin’ O the green for St Patties Day. Apparently it is also Glenn at Curve Inn’s birthday, and they will be having a party Wednesday afternoon and night with free corned beef & cabbage from 4pm till it is gone, and a DJ karaoke guy from 7pm on.

This weekend we have..

Something has come up, and I will have to finish my update later. In the meantime enjoy the nice weather and have a good Sunday.

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Pi Day V2

Sorry, I had to go.

In the meantime, Jabber E-mailed in with another event. I thought it was the weekend of the 27th, it is this weekend.

The event in mind is the March Humm Drumm Poker Run with the Firelane Bar this Saturday the 20th. They will be Meeting at Firelane, Leaving at 11:00. Rapids Resort is the first stop, yes I will be working. Then it is off to Eagle Creek, Brown Jug, I Dont Knows in Middle Inlet, The Chippewa, then back to Firelane.

In other news, the day today was a nice one. Athelstane Weather showed 63.9 for a high. I saw the car gadget get as high as 65 in sunny areas and down to the upper 50s in secluded areas that were shaded and still held snow.

The warm weather has eaten a lot of snow, but there is still some in sheltered areas. The driveway and other gravel roads are soft in spots but firm in many areas. It again depends on how sheltered it is. It has not been a bad mud year, but you can find it easily enough.

The Peshtigo opened up by Kosir’s, but remains frozen upstream. The water is starting to run on top of the ice, usually the beginning of the end for the ice. The water is gathering in the low spots, and while they aren’t flooded, there is water there. Right now all that it will take is a little rain and some warm days to get it all rolling. It is running about+6″ right now, maybe a touch higher. It is just getting started.

The latest GFS model run has backed away from snow for late weekend. We are still expecting a weekend rain storm, but the latest version cheats us out of our 4-8″ follow through. It could easily change again.

The biggest change in the great outdoors was that the chippies came out over the past few days and are rather frisky. I could hear them calling back and forth in the yard and they were zooming back and forth rather energetically. Obviously they are happy about spring.

I have seen my first gnat, but only one. There were a few of those first white moths out the other night too. Even though it is a drab time of year, it is a wondrous one, as each day brings another bug, critter, or plant emerging for spring. It is a cool progression, and it peaks with the great greening of the land in May and June. That is an amazing transformation.

That is about it for today. Have a good Monday and thank you for visiting!

RJB