Greetings and welcome!
It is a chilly day outside today. Looking out of the window it looks nice and sunny, and very inviting. A step through the door finds a 44 degree day with the wind roaring in the trees and sounding like a rushing river. The wind is at 15 and gusting to just over 30.
The rain yesterday didn’t add up to much. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s measured about 1/10th of an inch, and the puddles in the driveway remain dry. It did pound on the roof a few times for a little while, but it wasn’t as impressive on the ground as it was on radar.
The storm did bring in some colder weather. As I mentioned, today’s high so far is 45 degrees. We are expecting low to mid-50s Friday and Saturday, and getting closer to 60 for Sunday.
The real story here is the overnight low temperatures. Between the clear skies and the cold air mass, we are looking at low 20s for tonight, and upper 20s for Friday and Saturday night. Be ready for cold nights if you are camping over the weekend.
There is a possibility of rain over the weekend, but so far the models have been keeping it south of 64 and and mostly south of abut Green Bay. That isn’t a lot of margin, but so far our forecast here remains dry.
Between the low humidity and high winds fire danger is elevated again today. The dry air and wind will absorb any free moisture, and low humidity and low moisture levels over the weekend will again bring elevated fire danger. We will eventually get good conditions for burning those Spring cleanup brush piles, but the past week has been a lot less than ideal, and the weekend isn’t looking good.
I feel bad for the frogs in the pond. They were noisy in March when it got so warm, and when the cold snap came they went silent. Yesterday I heard them again for the first time since then, and here we are with another cold snap. The pond is quiet again today.
We are nine days from the opening of fishing. The lakes are ready and ice free. The article in the paper had a DNR fish biologist saying that this year was the best spawning season that he had seen in 30 years. The ice went out early and the spawning has been going on for the past month plus. Supposedly that will leave some hungry fish for the opening of the season.
I am a fan of the solunar tables, and today I like what they say. It looks like we are in for a full moon on the Saturday of opening day, meaning that it is a peak time all weekend.
I am not aware of any events for this weekend.
That is the news for today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB