Category: Behind the Boats
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Who wants to flip a coin?
6/19/19 Update: We won the coin flip! Water levels 36 hours upstream have now dropped below where we need them to be and will continue to drop over the weekend. That means all trips Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are officially on. Water levels are still above normal and sandbars will be smaller than usual but,…
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Nice while it lasted!
It’s a breezy one today. Gusts to 30mph – the kind of wind you hunker down in and wait for the evening calm to make any progress. Luckily, it calms down Saturday and Sunday with light winds from the South (less helpful) turning East (very helpful). The biggest event of the weekend will be the…
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Did summer just show up to the party?
Lots of sun this past week and some hot and humid temps to go with it. This has been great for water levels as they continue to come down. We’ve got a small amount of rain in the forecast this week but it shouldn’t really have any impact. Overall, levels are still above normal but…
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Water levels coming down quickly this week, good to go this weekend
Only a few weeks late, it looks like we’ll be able to get rolling with the 2019 season. High water will be receding all week with sandbars coming out just in time for the weekend with some room to spare. Combined with a mostly clear forecast statewide, we’re in great shape for June 7, 8,…
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More rain, more high water
Once again we find ourselves stuck in an unstable weather pattern with water levels predicted to spike next weekend (currently somewhere around 25kcfs, most sandbars go away at 15kcfs). This is a real repercussion of climate change in the Midwest as storm systems have become more erratic and intense. The rate of warming in the…
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Sandbars are coming…Tuesday
No luck this time around. Water levels will stay high through the Memorial Day weekend and quickly start dropping Monday into Tuesday. Locally, we’ll have a lot of rain all day Friday so Tuesday might slip into Wednesday but everything north of us looks good and that’s where we get into problems as the watershed…
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Unstable weather pattern likely means no sandbars for Memorial Day Weekend
5/21 7:07am Update: Just waiting on this morning’s river forecast update. Castle Rock about 36 hours upstream is still putting out a lot less water than expected given what is going on upstream of Castle Rock. This is not promising as I think it’ll push elevated flow rates further into the weekend. That said, our…
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High waters push us back a week
Looks like our high waters won’t quite be out of the system before this weekend so our first official day will be May 25th. Long range forecast has some rain/storms over the weekend but so far this appears limited to southern WI and lower which is great news for us and means I’m pretty optimistic…
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Summer is coming!
It’s been a cold and wet spring so I propose we’re due for a reversion to the mean with a hot, sun filled summer. Water levels are currently running well above their long term average with more wet weather in the near future. This means sandbars likely won’t reappear for another week or two at…
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Summer is coming!
Eventually. But the days are noticeably longer, the weather is (mostly) getting more mild, and reservations have been building. That’s good enough to hold me over until the leaves come back. In the meantime, our reservation system is open!