Tuesday September 25th, 2010

Greetings and welcome!

It is one beautiful day in the north woods today. We are partly cloudy and about 75 with a little wind. There are a few gnats, but other than that it is about perfect out there.

Last night was on the warm side too. There was no fire in the woodburner, golly I’da ended up medium rare. I see a low of about 55, not too far off of the highs of the past week or so in the mid-50s and low 60s.

What is up is the big high pressure from the hurricane in the Atlantic is camping off of the SE coast of the US. The clockwise flow is sending a lot of warm air up from the south, along with some storms.

One storm was last night, but it didn’t last too long. It mostly made yesterday dreary and damp, followed by a line of overnight thunderstorms. We have another one, a pretty good one, coming late week. That should hit us between Wednesday night and Friday morning if things stay on time. The good news is that it should clear out in time to leave us a nice weekend.

At the moment the GFS and NAM forecast models have the weekend clear with the exception of a chance of rain late Sunday. The NWS version has a chance of rain Saturday, but they are struggling with a wide diversity of scenarios among the models. Until I see something more consistent develop between the models, I am sticking with nice weather influenced by high pressure behind the Thursday storm.

If in doubt, check the HPC. Ok, they throw a new twist into it. They have the late week storm lagging well into Friday, and the second storm a concern for next week. Again that leaves the weekend clear of rain, so it is on our side.

Be aware that both possibilities exist and check later forecasts. We kind of agree that there is a disturbance, it is the timing that is in question. We should get clues by the late week storm being early or late what to expect behind it for the weekend.

I am late today because I was on the road this morning. I did get a chance to check out some fall colors. When we took C to Wabeno we had a good show the early maples are starting to come in nicely, and some of the bright orange, purple, and yellows are starting to show. Some of the hillsides were getting that patchwork of color quite nicely.

As we headed down 32 going south, there was a considerable falloff in colors between Townsend and Carter. North of Carter should be great for the weekend and south of there will be starting up. Down by Mountain there are a few splashes, but not like farther north.

We have some good events this weekend.

We will be at a horse trail ride in Mountain on Saturday. If anyone is interested, hit the feedback tab and I will gladly fill you in.

Here are other events from Chris’ list.

Not much to do in fall around here, eh? There is more coming with bar hopping mini-golf where each bar sets up their own unique put put golf hole, a hay ride, and all sorts of stuff. We have a l0t of events in the fall.

The firewood mission is coming right along. The pile that I split last week stacked out to about 2 3/4 cords. Added into the 2 1/2 that I put up early summer, I am well on the way to the goal of 7 cords of oak, plus the piles of popple & basswood for early & late season quick fires. I will make the cold season now, but I like a little margin of error. The electric heat costs $1.08 an hour to run. Owie. Keep cutting!

Yesterday I established why I shouldn’t pile the wood in neat 1 cord stacks 8′ high. Jenga! LOL. I said a bad thing, but it was pretty funny. I knew what I was getting into.

It looks like my Thursday report will be a Friday report. Chris will be here, but I will be traveling on business.

Have a good week and thank you for visiting!

RJB