Amphibians delay Grafton dam repair

Plans to repair Grafton's Bridge Street Dam put on hold because of, get this, amphibians. The village says the DNR reviewed the dewatering and dam gate repair plans, but they found because of amphibians are digging into the impoundments area for the winter, you know. Getting ready. They will not be allowed to refill until the spring of 2027. That's when the repairs will resume. The dam's hydraulic lift arm failed in May. That's caused water upstream of the dam to drain down several feet. Now, I've got questions I'm going to get answered. Yes. Are we talking salamanders? Or frogs. Or frogs. I'm going to go with frogs. I did look. There's lots of amphibians, actually, in Wisconsin. Mud salamanders, I think, is. There's a possibility, because they're... Maybe it's a mission we should go on this weekend. Say what? It's probably a simple email to Grafton that I didn't have time to make today. But I'm going to get there. I'm going to get the answers for the people. We need to know what kind of amphibians are delaying our dam projects around here. A little science exploration. I don't know, Holly. Because it is getting cold overnight, and so everybody's trying to get inside. Oh, yeah. Including underground. Yeah, or underground, wherever just where you're not in the way of all of the cold weather, guys. Now, it's not cold. You know, I probably shouldn't even say cold because last year I was saying it was cold and people was like, oh, you just wait till winter. I was in for a rude awakening. So we're going to say chilly. Alright, it is chilly. It's been chilly all day. Temperature is going to drop and it's still going to be a little more on the cooler side. Not necessarily cold just yet. We got to 54 degrees today though. 40s was what our temperatures were this morning. We're back to where we were kind of this morning. 45, but it does feel cooler outdoors. Feels like 39 degrees outdoors with dew points at 39. And then our wind is from the north at about 12 miles per hour. Now looking at those temperatures across southeast Wisconsin here, what you're noticing is that we're We're still flirting with the 40s and boy are those temperatures friendly out there with those 40s. We've been in the 40s for a really long time at least over the past four hours we've been in the 40s and we're not really going to get to the 30s for Milwaukee's area until after midnight. Some of our areas further out to the northwest like Juneau, West Bend could even see 40s or 30s excuse me. Over the next couple of hours, they're just one to two degrees away from that. So we're just going to be waiting and seeing here in Milwaukee. We got a little more time, though, but it will get colder tonight. 30s is what it'll be when you wake up tomorrow and then we warm up to the 40s. Now we warm up to the 40s tomorrow. That's going to be our coldest day out of the week. And I say coldest because it is cooler than all of the other days that we're going to be seeing over the weekend and next week. All of that. It's because of a cold front. You see this cold front here? It's made it over the lake really into Michigan now, and it had all of that messy weather with it. So all of those showers and the mist that we were seeing earlier and then last night a little bit, that was all associated with that cold front. Now that the cold front's passed, we're starting to see a little bit more of the clearing behind it. We got a high pressure parked out to our far northwest corner, so that is what's going to bring in that drier weather for us, Especially as we hit... For the weekend and even into next week, let's even take a deeper dive here on our Sky Vision Plus. So we go throughout tonight. What you're noticing here is that we could have more of those clouds to kind of stick around even after midnight. Heading into Friday's forecast, we kind of start today off with a little more of the sunshine. But then we start to get more of those clouds coming back for the afternoon with some peaks of sunshine. Pay attention to these little arrows here, too. Those arrows indicate that the wind. It's coming from the north. You know what that means? Anything coming from the north is going to bring in cooler air. And that is why our Friday's day, as far as the highs, are going to be the lowest. 48 degrees is what we're talking for a high temperature. We're talking 30s for low temperature. And even Friday night. 20s. We can expect 20s for Friday night. Not sure why it's actually changing there, but overall pretty much the same numbers is what you're seeing. We will keep the sunshine around as well. We get back to the 60s as we head towards next week and then for Veterans Day as I move out the way here on Wednesday, we could have a slight chance for rain that comes back into the area, but we get through tonight and then we head into tomorrow with the cooler air. We're going to have a better setup over the weekend with warmer temperatures as well as more sunshine. Back