Greetings and welcome!<\/p>\n
We are going to learn a new word today. First the regular stuff.<\/p>\n
We have a wet week going on. It is raining today and we have about 3\/4″ down already. Tuesday and Wednesday we saw about 1.5″ of rain. As a result there is zero chance of dusty ATV trails and gravel roads but there might be some puddles.<\/p>\n
The whitewater rafting will be outstanding again this weekend. The Menominee River is running at 3,850cfs, a really<\/em> fun level. The Peshtigo is right around a +12″ and on the rise. Either river ( or both) would be an excellent choice.<\/p>\n We have more rain on tap for the weekend. There is a good chance of showers and storms tonight and Saturday night, but my NAM model is showing a break in the rain for at least part of Saturday, most likely Saturday afternoon. Sunday looks wet again.<\/p>\n I did see my first deer fawn last week. As usual the Mom wasn’t happy about it but the youngster was playfully bouncing around and checking everything out. I have seen a few turtles crossing the gravel roads to lay eggs. So far there have only been a couple of them and they were all smaller ones.<\/p>\n As far as the bugs go.. it is summer. Nothing new or unusual here. Bring Repel. I use the 40% stuff.<\/p>\n Ok our new word of the day is noctilucent<\/strong>. Nocti would mean night (as in nocturnal), and lucent would suggest light. Noctilucent clouds are clouds that are lit up 1-2 hours after sunset. They have waves and undulations sort of like northern lights, but not quite the same. It takes a very specific set of conditions for them to form, and apparently this year is a good one for them.<\/p>\n In short they are clouds literally on the edge of space 40-50 miles up and they look sort of like cirrus clouds. Because they are so high up the sun will continue to light them up well after sunset. Here is a link to an article that explains how they form<\/a>. (New tab)<\/p>\n At any rate, the Noctilucent clouds were visible across northern WI and MN last weekend. Here is an article about it<\/a> from a MN paper along with a lot of pictures and links. Here is a link to a Vimeo video<\/a> of them along with some sappy music.<\/p>\n I didn’t know about this phenomenon until yesterday, though I have seen it quite a few times. I guess that there are people that chase these things like tornado hunters.<\/p>\n It is another cool northwoods phenomenon and I thought I’d share it with you.<\/p>\n That is it for me today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n RJB<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings and welcome! We are going to learn a new word today. First the regular stuff. We have a wet week going on. It is raining today and we have about 3\/4″ down already. Tuesday and Wednesday we saw about 1.5″ of rain. As a result there is zero chance of dusty ATV trails and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}