Enjoyed a pleasant Wednesday late afternoon/early evening out in Rothrock State Forest. I hiked the Bear Meadows Loop, which is 3.5 miles in about 2 hours. It wasn't a difficult or steep hike (200' change over the whole trail), but being that Bear Meadows Natural Area is a boreal bog, there were places that were, well, muddy and soupy. Some navigating was required off the trail. :) Anyway, it was a great afternoon to be outside. When I started the hike around 4:30, it was sunny and near 70. The sun went under clouds arriving from the west shortly after I started and it had become a bit cool by the time I got back to my car. I then decided to try to find the fire lookout tower, which I kinda knew was closed (because of vandalism). I got up there after traversing various gravel roads and found a couple setting up camp. There really wasn't a good lookout point so I just walked around for a bit before leaving.
There was some severe weather across parts of the middle Mississippi Valley, although it would have been and was farther west than I would have wanted to go. Today, there have been several short periods of rain, otherwise clouds with some breaks of sunshine. Looks like another band will move through here soon with the front.
I was just looking at the models and found that this front going through the interior East today will slowly move to the East Coast and then stall. As this happens, both the GFS and CMC (Canadian model) show a low becoming cutoff along the tail-end of the front somewhere over the northern Caribbean/near Florida early next week. On occasion, you can get a tropical disturbance to form, but its too early to tell if that will occur.
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