Thursday 6/11/15

Greetings and welcome!

Rain Rain Rain!

We had a nice weekend last weekend until Sunday morning storms sent a lot of weekend people heading home. That is unfortunate, it cleared up after noon and by mid-afternoon it was a very nice day.

The rain came again later. About midnight Monday morning I was awakened by the rain and maybe hail really pounding on the roof. I turned on the local weather channel radar and nothing was there. Apparently this really intense little squall formed right over my neighborhood and didn’t show up on radar for a few minutes. When it did it was this intense little blob of red and orange.

Monday brought another round of heavy rain, though it didn’t last all day. Tuesday was a warm and humid day with a heavy sky that looked like the least little trigger would set off a round of storms, but it didn’t happen. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning a line of rain finally came through marking the passing of a cold front that made for a very pleasant Wednesday.

In other words it has been a wet week.

But wait, if you buy now.. We are looking at a pretty intense storm coming in Thursday afternoon and sticking around until mid-day Friday. The current map has the heaviest rain south of us, but we could still see 1-1.5” of rain. A 100 mile shift in the heavy precip area could take that into the 3+” range.

The accumulated rain and anticipated heavy rain has lead the NWS to issue a flash flood watch for most of northeastern WI.

The good news is that we are in for a nice weekend. The rain should clear out in time to leave us Friday night, Saturday, and most of Sunday until the rain returns. With pleasant days in the 70s it holds a lot of promise.

Chris was right on the events for the weekend, here is her list.

June 13
Red Arrow Trail Ride & Pig Roast at the Old Town Hall in Townsend. Fundraiser for trail maintenance. Visit website for full details.

June 14
2015 Oconto County Breakfast on the Farm.
Location: Golden Corners Dairy, 8551 Holtz Road, Oconto Falls, WI
Activities include Farm Tours, Educational Tent, Ice cream making, petting zoo, badger bouncers, live band, peddle tractor pull and much more!

June 13
1st Annual Pig Roast at Parkway Inn & Resort, starts at 1:00 PM

With all of the rain in the past month or so we are in whitewater heaven. The Menominee River is about as high as you want to raft it, and would be a spectacular run. Likewise the Peshtigo is in prime form running about +14 to +16 and expected to jump from Friday’s rain. You rarely get that and 70 degrees and sunny on the same trip.

Repel should be at the top of the list. An hour out in the driveway tonight found clouds of mosquitoes and so far 8 ticks that came home with me. I use the Sportsman 40.

I saw a few more turtles up on roads looking for a sandy spot to lay eggs this week

Time to wrap it up for tonight. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB