Nice to see the sunshine today. It’s 29* out but the sun doesn’t make it feel too bad. Went out and tossed the pigskin for a while. My shoulder will be sore tonight. ?

Over the past few weeks we have seen temps in the 50's and 60's during the week, and below avg. temps on the weekend.  I'm hoping the January thaw evens things out a bit.

We’ve had the first two full days in a row of sunshine here in quite a while. Temps are more “normal” like right now at night ( -20c or so), but the daytime temp was right up around freezing and even above today in the sun. Feels more like March than January, and this coming week it’s supposed to get above freezing a bit again. Not a typical winter for us at all, but I’ll take it. My son and I did manage to beat the fields into a pulp this afternoon with the sleds, might be as far as we get in them all year, and that’s fine by me. 

Here we go again.

On 1/16/2023 at 7:59 AM, MN Fisher said:

Here we go again.

I got an all day rain on Monday, followed by an inch of heart attack snow overnight. Strange weather for January here, no doubt about it.

 

Also, I heard on the radio that the Twin Cities has not recorded a single night below zero this month.

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I got an all day rain on Monday, followed by an inch of heart attack snow overnight. Strange weather for January here, no doubt about it.

 

Also, I heard on the radio that the Twin Cities has not recorded a single night below zero this month.

Ya - but we're getting the water we need - even with only half the month gone, Jan 2023 is already the 8th wettest on record.

With just a few inches of snow left on the ground locally,

looks like we're getting a little more. 

Thursday's Winter Storm Watch is calling for 4-8 inches with some freezing rain mixed in.

Once that mess blows out, day & night time air temps are expected to stay well above zero. 

All & All still a pretty tame 'winter'.

I'm not going to call it lame because you know the snow monkey

probably would take that personally. 

A-Jay

 

 

22 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Thursday's Winter Storm Watch is calling for 4-8 inches with some freezing rain mixed in.

Once that mess blows out, day & night time air temps are expected to stay well above zero. 

All & All still a pretty tame 'winter'.

Ya - they're looking at 2"-5" for us here - then highs in the mid to upper 20s following...pretty mild, but we really need the moisture, so I'm not complaining too much about the snow.

56 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

All & All still a pretty tame 'winter'.

I think you'll be fishing before April unless something drastic happens for an extended period of time soon here.

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

With just a few inches of snow left on the ground locally,

looks like we're getting a little more. 

Thursday's Winter Storm Watch is calling for 4-8 inches with some freezing rain mixed in.

Once that mess blows out, day & night time air temps are expected to stay well above zero. 

All & All still a pretty tame 'winter'.

I'm not going to call it lame because you know the snow monkey

probably would take that personally. 

A-Jay

 

 

Have you heard any ice reports up there? Most of our lakes are open. 

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

Have you heard any ice reports up there? Most of our lakes are open. 

I don't follow any ice reports until we are at least on page 3 of the calendar year.

Also, and this might be sort of by design (insert self preservation),

There are No Lake Menderchucks on any road I routinely use during hard water,

so I have to make a 'special' trip to see what's what.

A-Jay

I would estimate about 3 inches of fluffy snow here this morning.  It is still snowing too.  At least its the fluffy, light weight stuff that is easy to remove and not the heavy wet white ketchup we have been getting lately.

Here is a map showing the snowfall across the country since Oct 1.

 

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

Here is a map showing the snowfall across the country since Oct 1.

This was posted yesterday on FB

Just now, MN Fisher said:

This was posted yesterday on FB

The good news about getting a lot of snow this early is that its preventing the ice on the lakes from getting thicker.  You'd have to be insane to even consider driving on a lake with a truck with the lack of thick, safe ice plus all the slush and snow on top.  Really the only way to traverse many lakes is on foot or by snowmobile.  Its keeping a lot of pressure off the lakes this winter, which is fine by me.

 

Also, after the snow melts, it won't take very long to melt the ice.  I think its going to be an early ice out because of this reason, even with all the snow.

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

You'd have to be insane to even consider driving on a lake with a truck with the lack of thick, safe ice plus all the slush and snow on top.

I'll have to take a pic of Black Lake - last time I passed by it, there were probably a dozen cars and trucks parked out on the ice, right next to the pop-up shelters.

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

Here is a map showing the snowfall across the country since Oct 1.

 

Well I guess we get the prize for most in the southeast, that tiny sliver of yellow on the border of TN/NC 

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

Well I guess we get the prize for most in the southeast 

You guys must be permanently traumatized.

17 minutes ago, gimruis said:

You guys must be permanently traumatized.

Hahaha nah there’s only about 3 roads that go over the mountains and they close 2 of them anytime it’s impassable 

Looks like some arctic air will be invading a large contingent of the country in about a week.

 

I’m still hoping I don’t need to refill the oil tanks this winter, it was bad enough paying $3.50 in the fall, it‘s close to $5 now.

Well, it was nice while it lasted...back to the deep freeze we go.

I'm less than an hour from Orchard Park and we have had no significant snowfall this year. Really weird. Not complaining though. 

Holy cow MO has some cold weather on the way. I’ll be able to get in another weekend of fishing on the small lake I been on, but the weekend following, it might be pretty well iced, and I’ll have to look for something larger. 

I’m not sure what this cold, white, fluffy stuff is that keeps falling from the sky. Whatever it is, it’s making the roads slippery and causing cars to crash.