{"id":3942,"date":"2023-07-26T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2023-07-26T00:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:43:51","slug":"wednesday-7-26-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wednesday-7-26-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 7-26-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings and welcome!<\/p>\n

It feels a lot like summer around here.. The weather has been on the warm side and we have had a few lines of afternoon showers and storms popping up. That’s good, we can use the rain.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I was cutting grass way at the end of our private road, about 1\/4 mile down. The skies were getting a little dark and I was almost done. Yeah.. The skies opened up and I was done alright. It was a rockin’ downpour and I had to laugh as I raced up the 1\/4 mile road at the tractor’s top speed of 4mph. I pushed it and lost. Play stupid games..<\/p>\n

Anyway, that storm dropped close to an inch of rain in about 20 minutes. The road went from totally dry to huge puddles that fast.<\/p>\n

It happened again this afternoon. The heat of the day and all of the moisture in the atmosphere stirred up a dandy line of storms. When I drove through it between Wausaukee and Silver Cliff it was an incredibly intense downpour where it couldn’t physically rain much faster. There was some thunder, but no wind or hail.<\/p>\n

The storm continued to intensify and southeast of here the NWS put out a warning that radar indicated 70mph winds and up to 1\/2″ hail. It looked like only one little spot that got really strong. I haven’t heard of any damage or if the ground truth was as dramatic as the radar estimates.<\/p>\n

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When I was cutting grass at the Silver Cliff house it was only the second time this summer. That is very unusual. Most of what I was cutting was weeds. The grass had a rough year. In areas that it usually chokes the mower it just wasn’t that thick.<\/p>\n

Those weeds are also wildflowers, and there is a very nice variety going on right now.<\/p>\n

I did notice a ripe raspberry while I was over there. I don’t know if there are a lot or a little, I spotted it on the way back up the driveway in a downpour. I will have to look into that when I go finish up.<\/p>\n

We have had a rough year for gypsy moths and tent caterpillars. Those are turning into moths now and there are a lot of them. We are probably in for a bad year for them next year too if all of those moths have a successful breeding season.<\/p>\n

Some of the weather buddies were getting pretty excited about a hot week this week. Over the weekend there were predictions of days close to 100\u00baF. That has mellowed a lot. Now we are looking at mid 80s and a high of 91 Thursday. The weekend looks seasonal at about 80. It is late summer so an afternoon pop-up storm is a possibility just about daily.<\/p>\n

This weekend they are having Weinerfest North in Lakewood.<\/p>\n

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I will update with any other events that I find.<\/p>\n

That’s it for today. Have a good week and thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n

RJB<\/p>\n

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Greetings and welcome! It feels a lot like summer around here.. The weather has been on the warm side and we have had a few lines of afternoon showers and storms popping up. That’s good, we can use the rain. Yesterday I was cutting grass way at the end of our private road, about 1\/4 […]<\/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-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}