This is supposed to be the South. It is supposed to be more temperate here in the winter. Our wildlife expect that. So what is up with all this snow, ice and below freezing temperatures. The crappie moved up to spawn and promptly froze to death. When turkey season opens, I suppose we can just knock them off the lombs with a rock. Their feet will be frozen solid.
The only positive that I see so far is that the bourbon seems to taste better when it is colder............ Spring cannot come soon enough. The turkeys will be singing soon, just not quite soon enough. But hey, we can't hunt them in KY until 4/18 this year!
John, I'll gladly trade what we have for what you have there. Guaranteed I'll be wearing just a t-shirt there. The last week here was near and colder than -40. Better still, if you have any of that gumbo left, I'll just show up till I eat the rest!
-8 tonight and very windy here in NW NJ.... Yesterday was the first day over freezing in over a month... Have not seen bare ground since early January. There is about 2 feet on the ground from storm after storm after storm... I feel our pain. Going to Key Biscayne in April - need me some sun and fishes
CDA, ID 60 and sunny, but i would prefer to have the snow. The lack of it is going to mess with summer time camping activities(no camp fires). Weren't all of the southern/eastern people just complaining about a drought not to long ago. Be thankful that you are getting the water you may need in the coming summer months.
It's called "climate change," and it means more extremes both directions, hot and cold, floods and drought.
Take a look at the last five years across the middle part of the country. The hottest days we had in Kansas last year were in early May?
We've set more "record for this date" the past three or four years than I can remember. Last year I saw a May snow in Kansas for the first time in my life and I'm older than most rocks. Some of our biggest snows the past few "winters" have been well into spring. That's not common where my family's been for 140-plus years.
Reminds me of the early 80s, John, when we had legit -20 (not including windchill in Kansas) for several days, and a few days never made it to 0. But that was in late December or early January.
I didnt know you were from RI Charlie, figured out west with your posts. I may have to pick your brain for some public areas out there. -14 here in MA tonight, hope the turkeys are doing ok.
Up here in the northernmost part of NH it is now -20. My 8 year old granddaughter set out bucket sets yesterday for mink and otter. I went to check them for ice just before dark with her and they are covered with ice. Gonna be a rough morning as they are predicting -35 at dawn when we go out. We have not had a day over 26 in a month. Oh well, it's winter. At least there are no flies.
Yep, never happened before. Unprecedented. Or not.
Be careful what you wish for. Could be a lot worse. If we experience the extreme temperature drop-offs as have been experienced after these similar warming periods in history, we'll be having a different sort of discussion about "hunting clothes".
I wish we had snow here in northern nevada. We have had the exact opposite. Record highs and no moisture, it's killin us for good growth in the spring, summer. Water holes dried up, lakes low. Like I said I would take some moisture and cold in a minute.
We're having what would be generally considered a "normal" winter here in CO. Little snow in some parts of the state, lots of snow elsewhere, some great bluebird warm spells punctuated by deep-freezes.
Last week I was shooting my bow in a t-shirt. This morning it was 1.
Climate change hasn't struck here yet, but that's because all the Libs in Boulder are driving Priuses and riding bikes. Thank God they've spared us from the horrors experienced elsewhere!!!!!!!
-22 this morning here in western Pa and I didn't think it felt below zero. Must be getting used to it.
It started off as a warm winter with little snow, but turned quite cold several weeks ago and just keeps putting it down. I'm running out of room to put it.
I don't like to complain though cuz I'd rather be cold than hot.
It is -22 as I sip my coffee this morning. If you all recall we get sick of winter before winter gives up every year. I suspect some of will whine in mud season, spring and summer. At least with the cold you can fire up the stove and add a layer of clothes.
I never complain about the cold since I moved back to Michigan. After living down south for 8 years and experiencing the stifling heat, humidity, and horrible never ending bugs. Ticks, Chiggers, etc....those mothers loved me; northerner blood is sweeter or something! This cold weather is just killing bugs. Add log to the fire, put on a sweater and enjoy. You can only take off so much in the summer.
Global warming the biggest scam ever! It’s too bad the non-thinkers lick it up!
It called weather! Can be hot in the summer, can be cold in the winter. Enjoy the seasons the good Lord made.
I live in Northern NYS, outside the "Blue Line" efining the Adirondack Park. We have set records for the mose below zero days and the most consecutive below zero days. My wife and I think that we have more snow now on the ground than last year, although the years have manifested themselves (wow - big word!) quite differently.
A year ago, the snow arrived in early November and stayed stubbornly in place until the early weeks of April before lawn was partially visible.
This year, the snow arrived again in November, however from then to the end of January, we had 3 significant melt offs - big deal when snowblowing a stone driveway! :) Can we say klunk, plunk, bang through the chute! To be enjoyed oncve more during mowing season!
The arrival of February has brought the white, hard precipitation with a seeming vengenance! I have over 3 feet on the ground everywhere, with much higher piles from snowblowing certain areas. My 3D deer target shows only a portion of its neck and the head. We could use a bit of the global heating that they talk about! This AM was -15!
Genesis, we have highly portable hut sleds with heaters, sliding padded seats, sonar, food and drink, tunes. The challenge is to regulate the temp so we don't get too hot. Where I fish it's like looking down into an aquarium, watching big trout bite. Women and kids love it.
Northern WI. Here and we're experiencing a heat wave today with a break in the temps at 19 currently. Can't remember the last day we were above freezing and have not seen bare ground since later in November.
As far as. climate change, if it's not a natural thing and man made. What ended the last ice age?
Let's not forget the polar vortex aka cold front. It's been a fairly modest winter in NW Oklahoma. We had more 70 degree days in January than I can remember. This cold spell was due, in two weeks it will probably be 80 degrees. What else do you expect in the land of trucks and SUV's. :)
85% of scientists who are on the grant-funded "climate change" research gravy train believe their funding will go away if nobody cares.
The other 15% have moved on to research actual problems.
My friend, Professor William Gray, one of the most respected atmospheric scientists in the world, told me this. You can Google him. He has given me tons of study results that were excluded from the IPCC reports because they didn't fit the predetermined agenda.
LINK, I think they're calling ours in CO the "Siberian Express" this week, since Polar Vortex was already taken.
There is really nothing going on that hasn't happened before. I don't know if it is hundreds or thousands or millions of years but it all goes around. Last summer was our wettest on record and the summer before the dryest. We had almost no fall, just went from summer to winter.
Usually this time of year, I am starting to see some green in the fields and trees. And by now, I have several packages of fresh fish in the freezer.
My view from the office today. Many of you may recognize the building - but the ice flow is very uncommon. Takes a serious cold snap to freeze the briny Hudson. The ferry boat captains are earning their pay these days.
anywhere in white is 4ft plus.Deepest snow in US is in Maine not Mass.Mass has bout 30inches in harder hit areas on the ground in maine areas near NB border over 6ft and in NB 4-12ft
We've been told here in MN that we will have Kansas' climate in the future. Here's hoping we get their quality of deer too. Yahoo! Bring on the warming!
TSi that map is way off. I am in upper NW corner of NJ and have over 20" on the ground in the yard. Over 2 feet In the woods. Your map shows 6" or less
I believe that was 71. I won Casper in 69-70-72 so that had to be 71. Joe, Chirs and I battled it out all over the country for a couple years. Joe and I split the bares at Ft. Collins won year and to flip for the buckle. he said if he won it, he would give it to me. Lyin sack of salt. :)
22 degrees standing calf deep in bentonite slurry welding a steel pipe. I couldn't lean against the pipe because I'd freeze to it. And today was a warm day compared to last week.
I too am done with winter. Last week, we had single digits. There was this weird little dash in front of the temp display on my dashboard one morning. ??? We only see those numbers on the national news. We got in one day of drilling and even then we were pushing our luck. This ain't the VA of my youth.
Lord, give me a 105 heat index and no shade in sight. A man can hydrate.
I may slap the next person I hear utter the phrase "global warming" outside a completely derisive context.
Wanna trade anyone? This is the warmest morning this week. But they are saying once this arctic air mass passes and the one behind it passes, then we'll get warmer weather. I'm done with it and going to Cabo in a coupe weeks.
Al Gore told us in his book the Inconvenient Truth that by the year 2000 in the contiguous United States it would not get below freezing. We were hopeful in MN., another myth.
Now it's Climate Change, kind of like the Glacier era, unprecedented.
There is a reason Indians migrated from Tn.to Florida for thousands of years.my family's been doing that since the 40s me included.84 here in HomesteadFl today.Be back in Tn when the turkeys call me.Good luck.Lewis
Except for a heavy snow coming earlier than normal and a colder than average February, the UP is having a pretty average year. Here in the Keweenaw, 224 inches of snow with about 4 feet on the ground. Lake Superior is mostly frozen over, so the lake effect has stopped. I'm hoping for a spring this year, many years we go from winter to summer.
No one knows about previous cycles because no one was around to record them. That said, climate change is bunk. The industrial age is so recent that it would be impossible to have affected the overall climate. Anyone who believes climate change isn't thinking. Our lifetimes are so short that the changes we perceive are likely just recurring history.
We were just in Vegas and went on the Grand Canyon helicopter tour, the pilot was telling us about the water levels in Lake Meed when we were over the Hoover Dam. Very noticeable with the white line on the rocks. I think he said 80 or 100 feet low. He then went on to tell us of an Elvis movie he'd just watched that was shot in Vegas and some over by Lake Meed. He said the water level was low the year they shot that movie also, so there's peeks and valleys in precipitation and temperatures also and of very recent. This time last year we were looking at 5 feet of snow in the yard. Today maybe 3 inches.