Update- Langlade Co has closed their trails as of noon today in hopes of preserving the trail base.
Greetings and welcome!
When I got up this morning I was afraid to look out of the window. We had a warm foggy day yesterday, followed by rain last night.
We went out about dinnertime last night. We didn’t stay long and came straight home. The roads were glazing with freezing drizzle, and by about 7 it was a full on rain. The roads in the way home were insane.
It turned out better than expected when I opened the blinds. We now have a lot of saturated snow and plowed roads are a big sheet of ice. When it freezes tonight we will have a heck of an icy trail base. What we don’t have is a lot of free snow on the trail. The rain ate that.
There are a pair of storms coming for Friday and Saturday. The earlier model runs had them both hitting perfectly for big snow for us. That turned around in a big way in the latest model runs. The first storm is shown tracking too far north and coming with mostly rain. The TV news this morning said 1/2-1” of rain followed by a little snow. The second storm is now shown tracking across Ohio and us only getting a little snow from the north edges of the storm.
Honestly I am not too worried. It only took one day for the models to change and there are three days for that to turn around. The first storm only needs to move about 100 miles south to make the difference between rain and a 6+ snow storm.
With above freezing temps daily and only a chance of snow instead of rain, the outlook for the weekend is pretty questionable. I know that a lot of people like to make weekend plans by Tuesday and today I don’t have a straight answer.
Right now Iron Snowshoe and other clubs are asking people to stay off of the soft trails in the daytime to try to save the base. Everyone is hoping for a cool down and snowy finish to the week.
Have a good Tuesday and thank you for visiting!
RJB