incoming weather

[Dotch]

Talking some passing light rain or snow showers today. Should get back at pruning apple trees depending on how ambitious I feel. Could be a glenn nap in the way...

[glenn57]

      I've been putting it off for as long as I can. I think this week I'll run all the gas out of the new snowblower.
      Should I change the oil after running it?

its brand new right........i wouldnt.....but thats just me!!!!!!

[Jerkbiat]

What Glenn said.

[glenn57]

Well I’m in Baxter. I don’t know that we got 25”, but I bet it’s close to 20”.

your in Baxter??? here i thought you where up in the boonies somewhere near boar???? 

[Cooperman]

No never that far north. I moved from the Park Rapids area last summer.

[glenn57]

No never that far north. I moved from the Park Rapids area last summer.

had some friends back in school that were from Park rapids area. they moved down here for work. been there a few times.....but i'll be danged if i can remember the lake they were on!!!!! all i remember was north of town.

wife has family friends that is a doctor went up there for a while to practice......a Dr Bob Gardner!!

[Dotch]

Looks like we're getting better rainfall than was anticipated just 24 hrs. ago. There's a band of orange that showed up in the radar loop & appears to be for real judging by the pitter patter on the roof. If I hadn't had so much coffee I might be doing my glenn impression & looking for a place to nap out back in the warehouse! 

Added up the precip for March at the ranch and in Bugtussle. At first glance not impressive but more to it than meets the eye. At the ranch we garnered 1.78" of liquid equivalent precip which included 3.1" of snow. In Bugtussle, we measured 2.33" of liquid equivalent precip & included 2.6" of snow. Normal for March at the SROC in Waseca is 2.25" and 9.0" respectively. We were fortunate that our soils were thawed sufficiently for this water to soak in for crop growth. The bad news is it hasn't done much hydrologically speaking so ponds, lakes & streams are all still very low. Careful what you wish for as they say. I still remember the DNR telling people back in 1988 that water levels would never recover from that drought. Within 5 - 7 years, people's lake homes were suddenly underwater! I remember looking at an island cabin for sale on Long Lost Lake south of Zerkel in that timeframe. Pretty spot & no one was there, but we could see water starting to seep in thru the sliding glass door. Nope. 

[Gunner55]

No rain at 8 but had some light rain at ~ 9:30 when I came back to the car. 

[LPS]

I remember that dry year well Dotch. I lived on the very north side of Stillwater and had a houseboat at the Marina a block or two away.  Minnetonka was drying up so boats couldn't launch at the accesses so they all came to the St. Croix.  It sucked.  I called it the year we felt like being in a warshing machine due to all of the boat traffic.  AND yes 2 years later the lake filled right back up. 

[Jerkbiat]

I remember 1988 well to. I graduated high school that year and was working for a house framer down in Chanhassen. Boy was it hot. We lived in Rogers and farmed there. We got a whopping 40 bu to the acre corn that year. I went to work at Spancrete in Osseo by the end of that summer. The traffic drove me nuts coming home from Chanhassen.

[Gunner55]

It was spittin a little snow when I came home about a 1/2 hour ago. Gonna stay to warm though...........'til tonight.

[Dotch]

Ya '88 was a year to remember. It'd get so hot by about 1 or 2 in the afternoon, we'd just quit looking at fields and go back home to sit in the AC. Crop was a disaster anyway. Boxelder bugs were awful, even worse than this past year.

Weather's still messing around here, chilly, drizzly & damp. It's got the ground soaked up pretty good. There's been some water standing on headlands in spots. Most are content to have the rain and wait. Some bought up early planting insurance so they could plant in March and receive $40/acre if they had to replant. Looks like that was a waste of money. This is what happens when you make decisions based on emotions and gut feelings.     

[mike89]

getting or got a blend of rain snow and very small hail in the last hour...  always interesting April weather... 

[Gunner55]

Today, tomorrow, & Sunday are the only days in the 10-day still in the 40's here. Almost 60 by next Monday/Tuesday & close to 70 by that weekend.

[Dotch]

Another little dab of moisture overnite here, now breezy today with gusts up over 40 mph. Supposed to warm into the weekend with more rain Sunday into Monday. They've backed it down temp-wise tho. Had seen some 60's for highs in earlier forecasts by early next week but now it's 50's. Maybe 60's for that next weekend but with increased chances for rain.

[mike89]

Another little dab of moisture overnite here, now breezy today with gusts up over 40 mph. Supposed to warm into the weekend with more rain Sunday into Monday. They've backed it down temp-wise tho. Had seen some 60's for highs in earlier forecasts by early next week but now it's 50's. Maybe 60's for that next weekend but with increased chances for rain.

ab out the same here, maybe a bit lower temps

[KEN W]

Fire conditions will be elevated in 32 Minnesota counties Saturday afternoon thanks to dry conditions and strong winds.

Because of that, the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for the following counties from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday:

Becker, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Kittson, Lac Qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Marshall, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Norman, Pipestone, Polk, Pope, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, Wadena, Watonwan, Wilkin, and Yellow Medicine.

[glenn57]

my phone has the RedFlag warning for here in Stearns cty also.........so no fire today!!!!!!

[Dotch]

Got 'er here too. Winds gusting over 35 mph. You'd think with all those big fans they put up they could blow it back the other direction...

[tangle tooth]

      Looks like it's going to be windy right through till late Sunday night.

[LPS]

We got those on our phones yesterday and LOW was included then.  The wife won't let me have a fire now.

[glenn57]

We got those on our phones yesterday and LOW was included then.  The wife won't let me have a fire now.

when i looked at the weather this morning i noticed the fire danger warning up there also....says till 11 am today!

i was kinda surprised when i looked at the webcams the sun was peeking out between the clouds!!!

[Gunner55]

According to the late news we had gusts to 45 yday.

[Jerkbiat]

There was a breeze here yesterday. But I didn't think it was terribly windy out on the lake.

[Dotch]

Still blowing hard & gusting to 35 mph. Scattered showers moving thru. When reading my moth traps this a.m. I got on the west side of the windbreak & it was downright calm. Barry could have his fire there! Expecting .25" - .5" of rain so he'd have to bring his umbrella 🌂

[mike89]

winds about 20 mph and been raining softly for a couple hours so far...  looks like it could rain for a few more hours too....   

[LPS]

I love a rainy day as long as they aren't too many days in a row.  My Dad does too.  Well it is 52 here.  We just cut up a dead elm that was in the driveway ditch.  Hauled most of it to our campfire pit.  The wife may be weakening.  She asked if I was going to light it.  LOLOL   Maybe later.  The ground is really wet in the trees yet.   

[glenn57]

Raining here now harder then all morning.  Looks like some grapple to.

[Dotch]

Fed the bottle lamb about a half hour ago. Looked like ~.1" of rain so far. Haven't stuck the smaller central cylinder in the gauge yet. Chicken that it might freeze until later in the month.

[Jerkbiat]

Sun still shining here with a little bit of clouds. 8 mph breeze off of the lake.