Category: Behind the Boats

I rate this coming July 12-14 weekend a solid 7.5 out of 10. Sandbars are popping out left and right today and water levels will continue their big drop for the next few days at least. They could be a little lower (thus the 2.5 point deduction) given this will be one of the three…

[Quick update: 7/8 1:47pm – Flow rates up north have dropped by half (18kcfs to 9kcfs) so by Wednesday afternoon we’ll be in the clear with sandbars coming on strong shortly after] The weather forecast looks amazing (finally!). The next 10 days are mostly sunny with highs in the mid 80s. Water levels are still…

Update: 1:12pm 7/5/19 Water is back up (about 6″ too high), overnight trips are cancelled but day trips are still on. Should be good to go for overnight trips by early next week. This time of year, water will drop quickly to low levels and lots of sandbars. Update: 10:56am 7/2/19 Well this just got…

We’re looking at a week of highs in the upper 80s and humid, i.e. summer! Water levels look to be receding back to their long term averages and sandbars are coming out in force. Long story short, this coming weekend looks great!

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…