Greetings and welcome!<\/p>\n
We have more than a weather update to talk about today.<\/p>\n
Probably the most exciting news comes from the Lakewood Zoo<\/a>. They got a rare group of 3 lions and 3 white tigers that actually live together and get along from a private zoo in Texas. Generally those species don’t play nice together, but since they were raised together they are fine.<\/p>\n So they added 6 big cats to their exhibits, 3 African Lions and three white Siberian tigers. The surprise came when they were loading the cats and one tiger didn’t want to go. A look inside their cave showed why.. Four brand new baby tigers!<\/p>\n All of the big cats are in Lakewood Zoo now, and the four baby tigers are in a play pen in the gift shop. Also check out their Facebook page<\/a>, where they have updates and pictures. Here is a link<\/a> to a local news report too.<\/p>\n Speaking of the Lakewood Zoo, they are having a big Zoo Fest at the Mountain Community Center this Friday and Saturday. There will be live music, carnival games, a petting zoo, hay rides, a flee market, horseshoe and baseball tournaments, and an antique tractor show. The owner of the zoo also runs 5 Star Fireworks, a big show outfit, so they will be having a big fireworks display both nights at dusk. Their Facebook page mentioned that they will have two of the new tiger babies there too.<\/p>\n The Zoo Fest benefits the zoo and the Mountain Horseshoe Club. It is going on 6pm- midnight Friday and 9am to midnight Saturday.<\/p>\n Also missed in this week’s event list.. The Roberts Lake 36th Annual Corn Roast and Fisherie is going on this Saturday near Waubeno.<\/p>\n This weekend should be good for fishing. It looks like a full moon Saturday, and the weather looks unsettled.<\/p>\n This week has featured very pleasant weather. Temperatures were in the mid-70s all week and there were a few sprinkles Tuesday afternoon. Some friends golfing in Lakewood said that it was a lot more than sprinkles there, as they golfed 3 holes in the rain before giving up (right before the rain stopped).<\/p>\n The NWS has us for minor chances of rain later today and tonight, with 30 and 20% respectively. Friday the chances go up to 40% and Friday night and Saturday they jump to 70%.<\/p>\n There is an approaching low pressure system and associated fronts making thier way toward WI. Exactly how that will unfold Saturday brings varied opinions.<\/p>\n The NAM and HPC versions have the low tracking across the center of the state, bring a little heavier pockets of rain. The HPC has us for 0.25-0.5″ for Friday night and again Saturday.<\/p>\n The GFS is tracking the low pressure area much farther south over Northern IL. That puts us in the 0.1-0.25″ band (total for the whole weekend) with the rest of the state seeing a possible 0.25-0.5″.<\/p>\n The GFS is a lot more desirable scenario, that would be scattered showers that wouldn’t affect the weekend very much.<\/p>\n Well the day is ticking away and the list isn’t much shorter, so I have to run along. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n RJB<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings and welcome! We have more than a weather update to talk about today. Probably the most exciting news comes from the Lakewood Zoo. They got a rare group of 3 lions and 3 white tigers that actually live together and get along from a private zoo in Texas. Generally those species don’t play nice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}