Winter 2023-2024

[gim]

I will say that its been extremely wet this "fall" though.  I have received almost 16 inches of rain since the last week of September.  It was more rain than I received the entire time period from May - mid September.  Soils have been recharged with moisture, our lakes have refilled, and rivers are flowing again.  The one kicker is that fall is crop harvest time and they have been unable to get out there to take out soybeans and corn much.  Check out this graphic on MN's drought status just from the past 40 days.

 

[TnRiver46]

Drier than a popcorn fart down this way but that’s always a plus, we don’t have crops just devastating floods 

[Jigfishn10]

I'm not buying it....Just crazy talk!

[12poundbass]

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Drier than a popcorn fart down this way but that’s always a plus, we don’t have crops just devastating floods 

Is your ground all rock?

[ElGuapo928]

Was awful enough this morning that I had to switch from flip flops to actual shoes with socks…..hoping this cold snap gets gone soon.

[TnRiver46]

22 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Is your ground all rock?

Pretty much. There are small crops in east TN but everything is steep and there aren’t many large scale farms. Corn beans okra and tomatoes in the backyard.  Apparently the soil is extremely old and not very good, seems like I remember it being compared to very old oxidized soils in Africa during soils classes……. But that’s been many years……. There was even some term for it that I’ve forgotten……
 

 

Contrastingly, West TN looks a tad like southern Illinois, Indiana, etc with corn and soybeans, they’ve got nice fertile soil from the Mississippi River. We had a forestry professor quiz us about the age of this monster willow oak tree on a WMA near the MS river, everyone guessed 75-150 years. He said it was 22 years old and he was there the day they planted it 😂 . That dirt is magic 

[throttleplate]

On 11/2/2023 at 11:02 AM, MN Fisher said:

My question is - is your wife already prepping for this snow season?

Yes, the shovels are down from the rafters and this year she will be running the 1976 24in bobcat. She actually was laying on the garage floor putting drops of oil from an old oil squirt can into the oil cups that lubricate the wheel axles and other bearings.

She took off the belt cover and the cover for the auger and oiled up the chain. Yes i was helping her but she took over the oil can as i was unable to contort my body to get to a couple of the oil cups.

[TnRiver46]

Just placing this here for reference, more beautiful fall weather 

[MN Fisher]

Russ...

[gim]

9 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Russ...

 

I heard on the radio today that its supposed to be pretty warm here all the way until Thanksgiving.  I am seeing multiple days in the 50's next week and maybe even 60.

 

If I didn't already winterize my boat, I'd consider fishing again.

[flyfisher]

I have always liked snow growing up in the philly area and since moving to Virginia we don't get it often.  if we got the snow you pictured, schools would be closed for two days here lol

[casts_by_fly]

While glorious for someone who can do things during the week and enjoys just being outside, this fall weather has sucked here for a lot of things.  In september and October there was rain for both days on 7 of 8 weekends.  I live in appple picking country where all the city folk from NY and surrounding come for nice fall days to hand pick their own apples.  It ws a bumper crop for apples this year and a disaster level of no-shows on the weekends.  The farms are struggling.  They are trying their best to get people in the door, but those two months make the profit for the year.  The long weekend and decent weather this weekend might help, but its pretty late and people have forgotten about fall hayrides now.

 

This warm spell totally screwed up the rut here.  The bucks are still mating the does, but most of the action is not during daylight hours.  We had 75 degrees here the other day.  That's a recipe for night time antics.  I need to pull the last couple days of trail cam pictures, but since I see my camera from the house most of the day, I know what those pictures look like.  

 

I would kill for 20F and an inch of snow overnight tonight.  Sunday will finally hit the 20's pretty solidly so I'll be in a tree.

 

That said, my grass is in such good shape that had I known how warm it was going to stay I would have touched up the dog digging marks and they'd be full already.  This year in general might have been the best every grass growing year in this area.  Never above 85 for more than a couple days, decent rain, prolonged warm and sun into the late fall.  My grass is one shade off being forest green right now.  

 

Remind me of this post when we get our first 2'+ snowstorm and I'm frozen to the bone clearing it.

[gim]

Geez, I may need to actually cut my lawn again.  Last year at this time we had 6 inches of snow on the ground already.

 

[Mobasser]

We've been lucky so far. We had some much needed rain, and day temps in the upper fifties. Next week, supposed to be in the mid sixties for day temps. I'm waiting for it to change...

[gim]

Winter is looking pretty mild in the north.  Obviously could change but with El Nino in full swing now, the odds favor a milder winter.  Can you say "early spring?"

 

[Jar11591]

We’ve had some flurries and squalls here, but nothing sticking to the ground. Night time temps have been down in the 20s though so I never know what I’m going to wake up to in the morning. 

[TnRiver46]

15 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Winter is looking pretty mild in the north.  Obviously could change but with El Nino in full swing now, the odds favor a milder winter.  Can you say "early spring?"

 

Nope, somebody saw a wooly worm so it’s nothing but blizzards until may. Sorry 

[MN Fisher]

10 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nope, somebody saw a wooly worm so it’s nothing but blizzards until may. Sorry 

That's what you're getting.

[casts_by_fly]

9 hours ago, gimruis said:

Winter is looking pretty mild in the north.  Obviously could change but with El Nino in full swing now, the odds favor a milder winter.  Can you say "early spring?"

 

 

maybe you’ll never freeze in the first place…

[gim]

50 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

maybe you’ll never freeze in the first place…

Ice anglers would be out with pitchforks by the masses if that happened.

 

[MN Fisher]

Are we ready?

 

7-day forecast has this gem

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with a high near 36. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Blustery, with a northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Wednesday

Partly sunny, with a high near 26. Blustery, with a west northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

 

[Woody B]

We get snow but not every winter.   We hasn't had any in a while.   

[throttleplate]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Are we ready?

 

7-day forecast has this gem

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with a high near 36. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Blustery, with a northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Wednesday

Partly sunny, with a high near 26. Blustery, with a west northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

 

 

Here in dakota it will start to get cold on monday, saturday its supposed to hit 50 and sunny with 6mph winds. I have our fishing gear all set out so when i step out on saturday morning and i feel some sun on my cheeks we are going fishing and no sun i will be going back to bed.

[casts_by_fly]

It’s is currently 62 degrees on November 17th as I sit in a tree in just a hooded sweatshirt and undershirt. I dont hate the warm but it certainly isn’t right or normal right now. 

[Jigfishn10]

Low 60’s this weekend in the Bay State…just another great weekend to rake leaves. 🤨