Greetings and welcome!
We had a pretty good storm come through yesterday afternoon and last night. My sources are saying about an inch of rain, I am guessing it was about double that. There were a lot of big puddles.
The storm brought heavy rains, off and on lightning, and occasional wind. In my travels it was not destructive. I saw one tree down, and I have a dead branch about 2″ across down in the back yard. Rumor has it that Wabeno was out of power for a while last night, maybe it hit a little harder that way.
It was an impressive storm on radar, and it brought a lot of rain. Thankfully all of that red and yellow was heavy rain and was not something more severe. I am sure that other areas got hit harder. I saw thunderstorm and tornado warnings farther south from Southern Oconto Co over to the always active area west of Lake Winnebago.
The storm was perfectly timed to bring the rivers up for weekend rafting. The Peshtigo already came up 3″ from the local rain to +2″, and should come up more or at least stay steady for Saturday and Sunday. The median flow of the Peshtigo on this date over the past 11 years is 191cfs. Today it is at 360cfs. Very nice. The Menominee River is turning in similar results with the 17 year mean of 1,470cfs running 2,100 today.
While we are talking abut the rivers being up I would like to suggest that this weekend would be a great one for a waterfalls tour. Like the rafting, with all of the rain the waterfall rivers are way above normal. Personally I am a fan of the 141 tour.. Dave’s Falls, 12 Foot & 18 Foot, Smalley and Long Slide and on up to Pier’s Gorge. Here is a waterfall page from the county.
The weather for the weekend looks OK. Today, Friday, and Saturday look nice with temps in the mid to upper 80s. Saturday night and Sunday the NWS introduces a 40% chance of rain. The HPC is looking for 0.1-0.25″ by Sunday morning. The NAM is showing similar totals with the storm going south and being clear of here by Sunday mid-morning. The GFS shows it hitting us Saturday night and Sunday morning with 0.5-0.75″ of rain and again only a minor chance of rain after mid-morning Sunday.
That is about it from here. My apologies for being late yet again. It has been one of those weeks. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB