Below 683.0 on Thursday!

Looks like the river will be below 683.00 by thursday!
When it drops below this mark the slow no wake is lifted.

I can’t believe most places had anywhere from 1 to 2.5″ of rain and the river levels are continuing to drop in the forecast. It doesn’t make any sense to me, but that’s what’s showing.

At the rate it looks like it is dropping, the Hudson launch could be open by the end of the long weekend.

Finally but…….big boats will be out in full force then

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I can’t believe most places had anywhere from 1 to 2.5″ of rain and the river levels are continuing to drop in the forecast. It doesn’t make any sense to me, but that’s what’s showing.

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It’s a conspiracy if you ask me ……… the same software program used to predict global warming is now being used for estimating river levels……

That’s good news!! I wasn’t even going to look after hearing the rain totals…I was just assuming that the no-wake would continue through the weekend.

I was at my Cabin on the Eau Claire chain a head water of the Croix system and it rained hard Mon and stormed all Monday night into Tuesday AM the lake came up 2 inches and it has no in flo only out flow into Eauclarie river into the Croix. Every creek ditch, p[ond and field is over flowing all the way back to the cities last night I do not see how they can predict that. I drove over the field that start the Kinni drainage and they are normally dry and make for an interesting conversation as to why they put a sign on a dry green waterway saying its the Headwater of the Kinnikinic well you can float it easily yesterday. The Willow was spewing mud and raging as well.

MWal

Just checked the gauge reading. 682.97 feet as of 0900, 21 May. Throw that throttle full forward and lets GO!!

Nice steady drop in the forecast. Caught my first channel cat of the season on 18 May. The season is now on. Got my bullhead traps out and I’m after them now.

Here’s the St Croix river level forecast:

5mph and MOOOOOORRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE —-

Check that chart again. It is higher than it indicates

Yes, is appears an adjustment has been made to the guestimation software ( must be provided by Al Gore ), pretty much looking at a NO WAKE through next Tuesday…

so what do you go by, the message at the top that says ‘latest observed value: 82.63 at 6:15 am 5/22’, or the chart that says 84.3?

Against my better judgement I sent a question to the contacts on the website, we shall see what they pipe in….

Really mucks up wknd plans

RiverGages is showing 82.61 as of 7am…seems this is the website I will show the sheriff while on the river this weekend.

Rivergages.com

Both sites are the same right now and its wake time.

I can assure you that based on the water in the parking lot at the Hudson landing last night, the water level isn’t below 83. The water is still half way into the parking lot. I would guess the law enforcement will be really busy this weekend.

agreed. i noticed they moved the logs up out of the water in the parking lot. perhaps getting ready to cut up and dispose of. SCRVA posted on FB that it would be slow/now wake until at least Tuesday.

So what are the rules? Has it changed from 83?

Here is what I got back from my inquiry ( in a pretty quick fashion which is appreciated )

“We are aware that the gage is reporting bad data at the moment, and thus we are attempting to remove the reports as soon as they appear on our site. The gage is not owned or operated by the NWS…I have calls in to both the Corps of Engineers and USGS to see if someone can repair it. In the meantime, we are still issuing a forecast for the site based on known levels above and below Stillwater.”

I take this to mean we should be paying attention to the forecast, not the hourly reading…

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So what are the rules? Has it changed from 83?

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I haven’t heard of any changes. Assume it is still 83.

http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/2014/05/22/boaters-face-no-wake-zone-on-st-croix-river/9446879/

Well, that’s that

Fished out of Bluff Park this morning. There was not a No Wake sign at the landing. Everyone was up on plane, including the tuna boats.