I know one thing for sure. If you're a service plumber, you'll probably start getting very busy soon. Once the pipes thaw out many will break open. Plumbers will be in demand. We made it to 24 degrees today. Felt like t shirt weather compared to this past week.

Supposed to get one inch over night......we ended up with 4. ?

Spring has sprung!

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

Spring has sprung!

Sure feels like it, semi warm rain with high winds. Even smells like spring thunderstorm 

It may reach 40 here in the north today.  Whole lotta melting going on.  And I don't see anything lower than about 30 in the 7 day forecast either.

 

Even if the temperature is below freezing, the sun is starting to get quite powerful.

Just now, gimruis said:

It may reach 40 here in the north today.  Whole lotta melting going on here.

Doesn't have to go far - the digital at my place is registering 38.5

   I found open water!!!!!!!!    ?  It's 38 degrees, and the open water is just a pumper on the Mississippi, and it's only half- thawed.

 

   BUT I DON'T CARE! 

 

  I'm going fishing, whether I catch fish or not!   Yaaaay !!!                 jj

We were supposed to get 1-2 inches in Nebraska yesterday...ended up with around 8! Heavy, wet snow.  

 

It's 41 degrees and sunny right now...melting!!!  : ) 

It seems this Winter has been much colder compared to the Winters in the last 10 years at least in Florida and many other places in the country. It even snowed heavily in many parts of Texas which is impressive since those parts of Texas are known for +100 degree temperatures in the Summer.

1 hour ago, soflabasser said:

It seems this Winter has been much colder compared to the Winters in the last 10 years at least in Florida and many other places in the country. It even snowed heavily in many parts of Texas which is impressive since those parts of Texas are known for +100 degree temperatures in the Summer.

Ironically we’ve had a very mild winter while the rest of the country has been cold. We get strange weather, had more snow than normal but never got much below 20 degrees . Usually we have some single digits and occasionally 0 

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Ironically we’ve had a very mild winter while the rest of the country has been cold. We get strange weather, had more snow than normal but never got much below 20 degrees . Usually we have some single digits and occasionally 0 

What part of Tennessee are you from? This Winter I have seen the most Tennessee license plates in all the Winters I have fished. You would think the weather must be bad in many parts of Tennessee for so many of them to make the +10 hour drive to be in South Florida this Winter. I read that many parts of Tennessee had one of the worst Winters in many years so you must live somewhere it did not snow as much.

1 hour ago, soflabasser said:

What part of Tennessee are you from? This Winter I have seen the most Tennessee license plates in all the Winters I have fished. You would think the weather must be bad in many parts of Tennessee for so many of them to make the +10 hour drive to be in South Florida this Winter. I read that many parts of Tennessee had one of the worst Winters in many years so you must live somewhere it did not snow as much.

We had a good bit of snow on Christmas but completely missed the last round. We’ve had a decent amount of snows for the winter but not super cold temps. I live in East TN near the smokies 

26 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

We had a good bit of snow on Christmas but completely missed the last round. We’ve had a decent amount of snows for the winter but not super cold temps. I live in East TN near the smokies 

Winter is almost over so the weather is going to get warmer in the next couple of weeks. The Smoky Mountains is a beautiful place with good fishing.

I don't even think it dropped below freezing here last night.  It was still dripping off the roof when I got up this morning to let the dog out.

7 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I don't even think it dropped below freezing here last night.  It was still dripping off the roof when I got up this morning to let the dog out.

It was 34 when I got up at 6am - so ya, melting all night long

37 and sunny, I’m loving it. It’s breezy out but not the warm breeze we need to really ramp up the melting, but I’ll take what we get right now. 

43 here this afternoon. Got a bit of a melt started...

Despite a bit of sunshine & temps in the low 30's 

Accumulating snow is expected across most of northern Michigan tonight into early Wednesday afternoon. The best chance for heaviest accumulations will be mostly right over A-Jay's house.

 Wet snow combined with reduced visibility will lead to hazardous travel at times,

but I'm not going anywhere.

A-Jay

 

Last week it was 10 with wind chill of -10 all week. Frozen solid. Today it’s 80. While driving between schools for work today I pass Ed the lake near my house and saw all these people out fishing. Saw a guy pulling a decent fish out right as I looked longingly at the water. 
 

Sigh

2 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

43 here this afternoon. Got a bit of a melt started...

It was absolutely awesome seeing zero clouds, seeing the snow melting, seeing, and most importantly feeling the sun!

 

We have quite a ways to go before open water, but we’re heading in the right direction. 

70 degrees here today. Buddy of mine went to the power plant lake for a few hours. Said there was 20 boats there on a Tuesday afternoon. The lower end was still iced up when he left despite the temps and warm water (42* at the edge of the ice).

 

I'm hoping against the odds that a small lake will open up by the weekend. I want to get out bad but 60* on Saturday will have 100 boats on that lake and I just don't think I'm up for that.

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

70 degrees here today. Buddy of mine went to the power plant lake for a few hours. Said there was 20 boats there on a Tuesday afternoon. The lower end was still iced up when he left despite the temps and warm water (42* at the edge of the ice).

 

I'm hoping against the odds that a small lake will open up by the weekend. I want to get out bad but 60* on Saturday will have 100 boats on that lake and I just don't think I'm up for that.

You remind me of me. Gimme the 40 degree day where most people stay home 

The older I get the more I detest winter.

We've had snow covering the ground now for over 6 weeks here in the mountains of VA.

BUT a real shocker today......64.2*

I’d like to feel bad for all you southern guys that haven’t had the best bass fishing weather the last few weeks, but I just spent 3 hours this afternoon snow blowing my house and shop driveway, and I also shovelled 2’ of snow off my boat shed roof. Guess it’s gonna be a bit longer before I’m boating anywhere