Behind the Boats

Update: The weather forecast has firmed up a bit. Looks like a strong pressure wave will be moving through our area Saturday afternoon evening bringing a few hours of showers and a line of storms. The concern for severe weather…

Update: 12:18pm 8/8/19 A couple more storms happened up north Tuesday and Wednesday – we’re not in danger of cancelling trips but it does mean we’ll get that rise in water levels right over the weekend. We’ll probably lose about…

I haven’t seen a forecast this good in a long, long time. Aside from great weather to be outside in, this dry sunny stretch should really help drive down those recent high water levels to their late summer lows. I’d…

River levels are dropping quickly and as expected. We will just barely be able to squeeze trips out tomorrow (Friday) with Saturday and Sunday looking pretty good considering all of the rain that just made it’s way through the system.…

Update: 7/24 12:12pm Nailed it. Dam at Castle Rock just dropped to 10.5kcfs (my graph doesn’t reflect this at time of post but my data straight from the source below does) which should get us to ~13kcfs here with room…

Update: July 20, 2019 7:04am Water is beginning its drop and should be reasonable tonight (still fine as is at 12kcfs but will be happier below 10kcfs for extra sandbar availability). Forecast models look to be bringing a single storm…

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…

[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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…