Extended forcast!!

While surfing around the net I found this site Extended forcast If they are even close it don’t look good for us ice fisherman!!

Ed

Well I’ll be honest with ya, I don’t put much stock in those things at all. But they may just provide a guide to what to expect, that’s totally possible. I know it’s going to get real cold down here this weekend, so there’s still hope to try out that auger I just got a few weeks back!!

So far, the extended forecasts have been exactly right this fall and (so-called) winter. Adding insult to injury, I have to watch blow-dried weather-people smile and chirp about the “wonderful” weather we’re having–I want to throw a brick through the TV when they do that. Darn climate shifts…

In an ideal winter, my boat doesn’t move from December 1 to March 1–that didn’t happen last year, and it’s not happening this year. Up north of here you guys should get some decent ice in a week or two; around Iowa City’s latitude the forecast looks pretty bleak for ice-fishing. Last winter was the worst ice-fishing year in my memory, but this winter already has it beat.

i think its a trend thats goin to continue, i’ve ice fished for over 20 yrs on clear lake. and over time it’s been less and less.

I think we will be alright in the LaCrosse area. The temps are suppose to be below freezing again by New Years. It is getting to be sick fishing on good ice one day and then water on the ice the next But no complaints here, so far the fishing has been good for me! A lot of ice to myself

I think we’ll get ice here soon, the winter’s still young, if we could get a week of below zero before it snows it’ll make a lot of ice!!

Ed

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I think we’ll get ice here soon, the winter’s still young, if we could get a week of below zero before it snows it’ll make a lot of ice!!

Ed

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…Just in time for the JANUARY THAW.

isn’t that wierd how the winter temperatures are going up and the summer temps are staying the same? scary thought, not any time soon, but a few decades down the road, there might not be such a thing as ice, snow, and sub zero temperatures. That would be something terrible.

I am thinking with this weather the Mille Lac GTG will have all the shacks 100 yards off the shoreline
I am hoping to get on the ice for the first time fishing on Saturday if there is any left

Cade,
You could also call that Florida, or Arizona, or ….
Just exactly why I like the midwest, we still have 4 seasons, well kind of

dave

This weather is a pain for the ice fishermen but when DeZurik and I released all those 6 – 9 pound walleyes we caught tonight on Pool 2… it didn’t seem all that bad.

What a gorgeous night! It was 39 degrees at 9 PM on December 28th.

I guess my point, if I have one, is when you’re given lemons…. you know the rest.

Could I get just a packet of splenda for that?
You and Steve, must’ve been a heckofa night! Sounds like fun

dave

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Could I get just a packet of splenda for that?
You and Steve, must’ve been a heckofa night! Sounds like fun

dave

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It was a blast. Is there anything better than an impromptu fishing trip? Steve called me at 3 PM. I was on the water within an hour. I stuck my first 6 lb fish about 15 minutes later.

Climate fluctuations happen–we seem to be stuck in a warming trend much like the one that occurred in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers in the Midwest received a false sense of security from the mild winters they faced, and as a result many farmers and ranchers were completely un-prepared in the early 1880s when a string of brutal winters hit them.

There was also a small cooling trend about thirty years ago that led many doom-sayers to predict a new ice age. Check through issues of “Time” and “US News and World Report” from the 1970s and you will see many of the same people now wailing about global warming issuing dire warnings about global cooling. I myself am just old enough to remember the hype about a “new ice age” during the harsh winters of the late seventies and early eighties.

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I guess my point, if I have one, is when you’re given lemons…. you know the rest.

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Yep……stomp the out of them and pray harder for ice

bad ice

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Could I get just a packet of splenda for that?
You and Steve, must’ve been a heckofa night! Sounds like fun

dave

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It was a blast. Is there anything better than an impromptu fishing trip? Steve called me at 3 PM. I was on the water within an hour. I stuck my first 6 lb fish about 15 minutes later.

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sure Jim errr i mean James, rub it in to all of those who couldn’t get out that fast, let alone catch a fish that fast. sure sounds like it was a great trip!

shane

That’s not a good thing when the ice fishing isn’t even safe on the Canadian Arctic

This is far from normal swings in climate. Lemonade not withstanding. Those folks that claim global warming is a myth ignore tons of evidence to the contrary.

Here is another more bad ice

*sweet*.. I MUST have read that forecast wrong.. cuz when I enlarged the map and looked at the temp guage to the side it was calling for temps in the 80s? NICE!.. guess I wont be going to the soutwest for photography this year afterall!… maybe alaska again…. ahhhhhhh alaska was also in the 70s and 80s.. and thats WAY warmer than when I was there in august!

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This is far from normal swings in climate. Lemonade not withstanding. Those folks that claim global warming is a myth ignore tons of evidence to the contrary.

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No one here is denying that the climate is currently in a warming trend-the myth is that it is caused by human activity. As noted previously, the climate cooled in the middle of the twentieth century, long after industrialization was in full swing. Scientists not on the payroll of government think tanks have found that climate changes such as the warming trend of the mid-nineteenth century and that of today are caused by shifts in ocean currents. These in turn are caused by increases in solar energy. In other words, the sun sometimes gets warmer, making the earth warmer.

The global warming alarmists of today are the same people who only twenty-five years ago predicted a new ice age. They were wrong then, and are wrong now in blaming human activities for global warming. They also predicted the “worst hurricane season ever” in 2006; it was one of the quietest. The worst hurricane season ever happened in 1896, long before global warming allegedly began. Industrial output also does not explain the truly dramatic warm-up of 10,000 years ago, when the glaciers that covered the Midwest receded thousand of miles.

The much-ballyhooed Kyoto Treaty exempted China and India from restrictions on CO2 emissions; ask one of the global warming experts why Chinese and Indian carbon dioxide is less harmful than American carbon dioxide. The Kyoto Treaty would have done nothing to stop global warming, but it would have devastated the US economy.