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Hardwood11

Hardwood11

It is going to be a good fall!
Reading all the articles about turkey hunting and finding sheds is great! In MN we still have two feet of snow! If you are planning on fishing the MN walleye opener, think twice..

We are victims of global warming!:D
 
Iowa could be 80's the weekend, so,,Hello,,Global Warming! Everyone forgets last Summer. A whole lot a Summer ahead!
 
Bemidji/Lake of the Woods ice report

3 feet of ice, with 2 feet of snow on top of the ice....less than 3 weeks until the fishing opener
 
Hardwood11 said:
Bemidji/Lake of the Woods ice report

3 feet of ice, with 2 feet of snow on top of the ice....less than 3 weeks until the fishing opener
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Lake we fish (near Leech) is usually still too cold for best fishing on opening weekend anyway. Memorial day is usually better. This year fish might still be hibernating until the 4th Of July... :confused::confused::confused:
 
Since I have been in Iowa, it has been feast or famine, as far as water. Ponds and creeks around me are just about back to average depth, due to the good moisture falls thru the winter. A few weeks of 95' to 100' will use it up fast once more. Last spring at this time moisture levels were about average in my area. It didn't take long to deplete them however. wild card is,,what the summer will bring. I work outside so, I am not all giddy about 80' coming. I know farmers are.
 
Hardwood11 said:
Reading all the articles about turkey hunting and finding sheds is great! In MN we still have two feet of snow! If you are planning on fishing the MN walleye opener, think twice..

We are victims of global warming!:D
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Just 2ft, come on man that's nothing!! :)


This picture is from Twin Lakes in Michigan's Upper Penninsula, taken last week Friday (April 19th). They had been down to 4ft but got 21+ inches in about a day and a half last week. Currently (April 23rd) it has settled and is down to about 4.5ft or so this afternoon. Crazy numbers for late April!!!

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Hardwood11 said:
Bemidji/Lake of the Woods ice report

3 feet of ice, with 2 feet of snow on top of the ice....less than 3 weeks until the fishing opener
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Guess I'll cancel the plans to fish the opener at the cabin! Although, the fish house is up there. Crazy year.
 
vman said:
Guess I'll cancel the plans to fish the opener at the cabin! Although, the fish house is up there. Crazy year.
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Well, you never know, we are expecting 70 this weekend, we need back to back to back 70's for awhile
 
About five years ago, there was a huge ice floe on the main part of leech lake on opening day. The ice was off most of the lake and the smaller lakes around here but there was this huge area of ice about 3-4 square miles of it out on Leech lake. On opening day, many boats went out fishing but the wind changed and the ice started to move. If you have never seen a couple square miles of 20-inch deep ice moving slowly across a lake it is a sight to behold. Boats that didn't get out in time were driven right up on shore and many were crushed. several people had to be rescued by helicopters.

Wisconsin's fishing opener is on May 4th and they will not have open water in the northern half of the state barring a miracle at this point. Most of Northern Minnesota will still be locked in with ice on the opener May 11 unless we get a couple reall warm rains and some wind. It will be touch and go for this year. Last year at this time I had crappies in the freezer and was fishing every day on our lake. Right now I could easily drive across the lake to where I was boat fishing last year. We have 30 inches of solid ice today April 23. Plus we have about two feet of snow still on the ground. Cabin fever is setting in bad.
 
Iowa1 said:
About five years ago, there was a huge ice floe on the main part of leech lake on opening day. The ice was off most of the lake and the smaller lakes around here but there was this huge area of ice about 3-4 square miles of it out on Leech lake. On opening day, many boats went out fishing but the wind changed and the ice started to move. If you have never seen a couple square miles of 20-inch deep ice moving slowly across a lake it is a sight to behold. Boats that didn't get out in time were driven right up on shore and many were crushed. several people had to be rescued by helicopters.

Wisconsin's fishing opener is on May 4th and they will not have open water in the northern half of the state barring a miracle at this point. Most of Northern Minnesota will still be locked in with ice on the opener May 11 unless we get a couple reall warm rains and some wind. It will be touch and go for this year. Last year at this time I had crappies in the freezer and was fishing every day on our lake. Right now I could easily drive across the lake to where I was boat fishing last year. We have 30 inches of solid ice today April 23. Plus we have about two feet of snow still on the ground. Cabin fever is setting in bad.
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It's a drastic change from last year!! One positive is we needed the lakes and rivers to rise and now they will
 
We're experiencing the coldest April on record in 113 years. I doubt I'll get many sheds from within the heart of the bush much before June.
 
We finally got rid of most of our snow last week in west central WI with all the rain we got. Still getting snow off and on but that should change this weekend when we're supposed to hit 70! I finally found some sheds this week!
 
mightymouse said:
Just 2ft, come on man that's nothing!! :)


This picture is from Twin Lakes in Michigan's Upper Penninsula, taken last week Friday (April 19th). They had been down to 4ft but got 21+ inches in about a day and a half last week. Currently (April 23rd) it has settled and is down to about 4.5ft or so this afternoon. Crazy numbers for late April!!!

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I don't know why the pic didn't show but it is a snow stick with the snow showing 6ft of depth as of last Friday, April 19th
 
Hardwood11 said:
We are victims of global warming!:D
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Yup, you are right.

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Negative Arctic Oscillation conditions are associated with higher pressure in the Arctic and a weakened polar vortex (yellow arrows). A weakened jet stream (black arrows) is characterized by larger-amplitude meanders in its trajectory and a reduction in the wave speed of those meanders. (Credit: Image courtesy of Cornell University)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132420.htm

Arctic Ice Melt Is Setting Stage for Severe Winters

June 6, 2012 — The dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home than millions of Americans might think.
That's because melting Arctic sea ice can trigger a domino effect leading to increased odds of severe winter weather outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere's middle latitudes -- think the "Snowmageddon" storm that hamstrung Washington, D.C., during February 2010.

Cornell's Charles H. Greene, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and Bruce C. Monger, senior research associate in the same department, detail this phenomenon in a paper published in the June issue of the journal Oceanography.
"Everyone thinks of Arctic climate change as this remote phenomenon that has little effect on our everyday lives," Greene said. "But what goes on in the Arctic remotely forces our weather patterns here."
A warmer Earth increases the melting of sea ice during summer, exposing darker ocean water to incoming sunlight. This causes increased absorption of solar radiation and excess summertime heating of the ocean -- further accelerating the ice melt. The excess heat is released to the atmosphere, especially during the autumn, decreasing the temperature and atmospheric pressure gradients between the Arctic and middle latitudes.
A diminished latitudinal pressure gradient is associated with a weakening of the winds associated with the polar vortex and jet stream. Since the polar vortex normally retains the cold Arctic air masses up above the Arctic Circle, its weakening allows the cold air to invade lower latitudes.
The recent observations present a new twist to the Arctic Oscillation -- a natural pattern of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere. Before humans began warming the planet, the Arctic's climate system naturally oscillated between conditions favorable and those unfavorable for invasions of cold Arctic air.
"What's happening now is that we are changing the climate system, especially in the Arctic, and that's increasing the odds for the negative AO conditions that favor cold air invasions and severe winter weather outbreaks," Greene said. "It's something to think about given our recent history."
This past winter, an extended cold snap descended on central and Eastern Europe in mid-January, with temperatures approaching minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit and snowdrifts reaching rooftops. And there were the record snowstorms fresh in the memories of residents from several eastern U.S. cities, such as Washington, New York and Philadelphia, as well as many other parts of the Eastern Seaboard during the previous two years.
Greene and Monger did note that their paper is being published just after one of the warmest winters in the eastern U.S. on record.
"It's a great demonstration of the complexities of our climate system and how they influence our regional weather patterns," Greene said.
In any particular region, many factors can have an influence, including the El Nino/La Nina cycle. This winter, La Nina in the Pacific shifted undulations in the jet stream so that while many parts of the Northern Hemisphere were hit by the severe winter weather patterns expected during a bout of negative AO conditions, much of the eastern United States basked in the warm tropical air that swung north with the jet stream.
"It turns out that while the eastern U.S. missed out on the cold and snow this winter, and experienced record-breaking warmth during March, many other parts of the Northern Hemisphere were not so fortunate," Greene said.
Europe and Alaska experienced record-breaking winter storms, and the global average temperature during March 2012 was cooler than any other March since 1999.
"A lot of times people say, 'Wait a second, which is it going to be -- more snow or more warming?' Well, it depends on a lot of factors, and I guess this was a really good winter demonstrating that," Greene said. "What we can expect, however, is the Arctic wildcard stacking the deck in favor of more severe winter outbreaks in the future."

 
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