{"id":2340,"date":"2016-05-10T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2016-05-10T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:09:02","slug":"tuesday-may-10th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/tuesday-may-10th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday May 10th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings and welcome!<\/p>\n

Spring continues to amaze here in Silver Cliff. The cherry trees are in bloom, and the marsh marigolds are everywhere. I actually cut some of the long grass in the front yard over the weekend, and I saw my first fern fiddle heads today. I also killed my first ( and so far only) mosquito Friday.<\/p>\n

The weekend again found dry and windy conditions and a fire danger in the very high zone. I really wanted to have a\u00a0 bonfire and BBQ grill going, but again it was just too risky.<\/p>\n

My decision was verified when I was out in the field Saturday cutting up a tree. The field grass was crunchy and ridiculously dry, and I didn’t even like being out there with the chainsaw. It would not take much to light the whole field up.<\/p>\n

When I looked up the fire danger Saturday there were three wildfires\u00a0 within 30 miles according to the DNR site. I can take a hint. Maybe next weekend.<\/p>\n

I heard on the radio this morning that the whole UP is under a red flag fire danger warning. That’s as bad as it gets, and we are what, 40 miles away?<\/p>\n

We had a little rain today, but it was not enough to run off or make a puddle. We have another chance at rain about Thursday morning, and maybe even a thunderstorm could happen. I would expect less that a half inch of rain out of that one.<\/p>\n

Behind that rain is a big cold wave just in time for the weekend. We are looking at high temps around 50 both days, and low temperatures around freezing.<\/p>\n

I was looking at the upper air temperature maps and it would indeed be cold enough at the key levels of the atmosphere to snow if there were any precip.<\/p>\n

I have to wrap it up, but here are a couple of event posters before I go.<\/p>\n