Greetings and welcome!
I have a very busy late week ahead so I am getting a head start here today.
I know that I complain about the weather a lot. It is because we are having November weather a month early. Yesterday morning it got down to 18 and the high was 38. That is about 12 degrees below normal on both ends.
I found a cool website tonight that has climatology information for Crandon. That is about as close as it gets to our climate. I actually gave them a link in the weather links section. Their navigation is a little goofy but if you poke around you can find a treasure trove of information on length of day, normal high & low temps and much more. Here is the October temperature graph. We have been pretty consistently 10-15 degrees low this year, and a lot more like November’s graph.
Driving to Crivitz this afternoon I saw a pretty good sized pond skinned across with ice. It isn’t the first time. Between the wind and below normal temperatures we are getting a head start on cooling off the lakes and getting a little ice.
The snow has mostly melted. There is some patchy stuff holding in shaded areas. Both the roads and ground will hold snow if it were to come.
We will finally get out of this crazy cold pattern with a lot of precip, and into a lot more variable weather in the weeks ahead. I will likely get a couple of 50 degree days, but there are cold waves too. Farther out in the reaches of the model I am seeing hints of a big storm coming. That clock is ticking, and the snow will likely stay for a while.
Saturday we are expecting to get up to 47, a degree above normal. Next week shows promise of a few warm days too.
One big deal is the time change this weekend. I have to tell you, I am not a fan. On Nov 1 sunset is at 4:41pm, and by the 30th, 4:13pm.
I do have one event this weekend, a Halloween ATV ride by TMVI.
This weekend should be interesting.. A full moon on Halloween, a blue moon, that falls on a Saturday, as the time switches. I am not quite sure what to think about that.
Have a good week and thank you for visiting!
RJB