Though Sunday's weather may have washed out your plans to attend the second day of Egg Harbor Pumpkin Patch or made you a little colder at the Packers game, plenty of good still came with the rain.
According to the rain gauge website RainDrop.farm, portions of Sturgeon Bay received between 1.19 and 1.51 inches of rain. Egg Harbor was forced to cancel the second day of its trademark fall festival when it received between 1.25 and 1.5 inches of rain. Kewaunee County saw a little less rain, with some portions of Kewaunee reporting less than 0.6 inches, and Luxemburg reported between 0.89 and 1.43 inches.
Sunday's rain will provide a break for area farmers taking advantage of the dry weather and firefighters tending to brush fires. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the last time the state's farmers had less than 5.8 days suitable for fieldwork was Labor Day weekend. That has helped farmers be five days ahead of average on their corn harvest and two weeks ahead for the soybean harvest.
By noon on Saturday, the Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department had already responded to two brush fires, reminding property owners that a burn ban covering several counties, including Door and Kewaunee counties, was still in effect.
The script has flipped in the past 24 hours, with most of northeast Wisconsin in a low fire danger zone. Despite the rainfall, Door and Kewaunee counties are still trailing its average precipitation for this time of year by over an inch.
