Joys of Northern Wisconsin

[jesse_the_k]

My family is enjoying a week up north near Rhinelander. Eating, chatting, sitting outside without care thanks to a steady 25 mph (40 kph) keeping the mosquitoes away.

Yesterday’s sunset is a thin sliver of peach and baby blue, barely an eighth of the sky, but fortunately doubled in the still lake. Impressive deep blue cumulonimbus fill the rest of the horizon. It’s a gentle end to the day. At 1 am, a very loud thunderstorm woke us all up while dropping 2 inches of rain.

Any exciting weather by you?

Comments

[lunabee34]

Gorgeous!

We have no good weather. It's one million degrees and climbing here. LOL

Sending you

[jesse_the_k]

the very best air conditioning!

Re: Sending you

[lunabee34]

We got a new AC about a year ago, and it has been a game changer.

[cosmolinguist]

We've had what's very hot for British people -- low to mid 70s. This happens every summer for a few (non-consecutive) weeks: they all wilt in the heatwave and I try not to be obnoxious with how much I am reveling in what is for me perfect summer weather: those temps, low humidity, and no bugs! They don't know how good they've got it here. ;)

[wendelah1]

Low to mid 70s, low humidity and no bugs. Sounds like perfect weather. How anyone could think it otherwise is beyond me.

[jesse_the_k]

Indeed!

[jesse_the_k]

Ah, that's an entirely polite thing to be not-obnoxious about.

The lack of mosquitoes is a definite benefit!

[seascribble]

HOT. HOT HOT HOT TOO HOT. Very pretty photo.

[jesse_the_k]

Sending cooling breezes!

[bibliofile]

Not sure when you left town, but twice in the last week storms have included sky that's growling (LaShawn's word for it on Bsky). Fortunately no tornadoes appeared, though some largish hail (golf ball) came down after.

As usual, your time up north sounds most excellent. Glad you made it back there.

[jesse_the_k]

We missed the growling sky (what a great word) and I'm glad. Hope you didn't lose power.

[sheafrotherdon]

That's so lovely!

I'm in Washington state, and today it's 62F and wonderfully cloudy. There's a brisk breeze, and I have the french doors open at the place I'm staying. Glorious.

[jesse_the_k]

Hmmmmmmmmmm. That sounds delicious. Hope the weather continued to be ocean-side-like.

[house_wren]

Love your photo!

[jesse_the_k]

<3

[mific]

12-13^C here (55^F), clear and sunny and a light wind, and I'm off to sit on my favourite bench in the sun, in my garden. 😊

Oh that is the perfect

[jesse_the_k]

weather and the perfect place.

[pauraque]

Pretty! Over the weekend we had theoretical weather excitement--a brief tornado warning. But the storm quickly dissipated, being rapidly downgraded through "storm capable of producing a tornado" to "severe thunderstorms" to "chance of thunderstorms" to "it might rain on Monday". At my house there was a small rain shower and not even enough wind to rustle the leaves.

Yikes

[jesse_the_k]

more excitement than one wants, really. Our county has a system of tornado sirens, tested at noon on the first Wednesday of each month. I suspect these exist thanks to security theater around nuclear duck-and-cover drills. Do you have a similar system in your part of the world?

...and of course now we have cell phone alerts, though I did hear sirens before cells in the last two tornado warnings.

Re: Yikes

[pauraque]

No, we're in the mountains so tornados are rare. When we get phone alerts it's more likely because of a snow squall.

[anais_pf]

I wish I were sitting next to that lake! Pretty photo.

I am sitting in my air conditioned home, with very warm and humid conditions outside, awaiting the severe thunderstorms we are promised will arrive in the next few hours and will continue overnight.

[jesse_the_k]

It was lovely.

I hope the thunderstorms came, were dramatic and beautiful in their weird way, then left!

[sonia]

Wow, beautiful! I love how the tree silhouettes frame the lake and sky.

It’s breezy and cool here after a brilliantly sunny warm-ish day. Supposed to warm up over the next few days, all the way up to 85. No complaints about the weather here.

Enjoy your time away!

<3

[jesse_the_k]

89° in Oakland is HOT. The last time I was in the Bay Area it was > 80°, and I discovered that Muni buses don't have air conditioning.

Re: <3

[sonia]

Huh, I didn't know that. I don't ride it often - coincidentally I rode it today for the first time since I've been back.

[vriddy]

Wow, that's a really stunning picture!

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

The weather is always more real when I'm by a northern lake.

[cmcmck]

Actual real sunny weather after an awful Spring and early Summer!

[jesse_the_k]

Yes! More sunshine not only brightens your days, but brightens ours with your wonderful photos.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice pic!

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks!

[luzula]

Oh, gorgeous. Glad you're having a nice retreat.

Yesterday was hot by Swedish standards (29 degrees Celsius), but today is cooler and better.

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

Yikes, that IS hot!

Your postcard arrived today, and those fjords may well be the most beautiful places on the planet!

Re: Thanks

[luzula]

I'm glad the postcard got to you, and that you enjoyed the fjords. : )