A METEOROLOGICAL SLUSH FUND

PACK ICE CLEARLY VISIBLE AT SOUTH END OF CHEQUAMEGON BAY

Thursday, 7:45 AM.  33 degrees F at the ferry dock and on the back porch as well (seldom happens).  Wind variable and calm.  The sky is clear, the humidity a relatively low 69%.  The barometer is beginning to fall, currently at 30.02".  The skies are predicted to stay clear Friday and Saturday with high temperatures into the 50's and 60's; then falling temperatures and rain on Sunday changing to snow on Monday, and continued cold weather all next week.

   I have been watching the movement of pack ice on Chequamegon Bay for many years now, and it always amazes me how it moves with the  winds, particularly in the spring.  It migrates from north to south and back again, huge masses of ice and slush.  One would think the ice would be melted by now, but it is still out there, moving around.
   It's sort of a meteorological  slush fund.