Opening Forecast:

[loneranger]

Forecast for next Wed=Temps around 80'. Typical warm start. Camo briefs called for. As a side note. Rain again this morn in West Iowa-Des-area to dissipate as it moves east. Also typical blocking pattern. Thank goodness for my land this pattern waited until growing season is over!

 

[CurtisWalker]

Looks like a 12+ degree drop in temps on the Friday though

 

[loneranger]

Depends on what forecast you read. Nat weather service does not look that far out. Any forecast is suspect even 2 days out, but over all pattern is now just the reverse of what Iowa had all summer. Summer was Ridge west-Trough east. Now is Ridge-blocking pattern east. Trough Stormy west. This pattern could now get established for quite some time. Meaning a warm Oct and Nov. Been about that way last few yrs. Last year I still got Chigger bites in Nov!

 

[skyleralan]

I have never once hunted the opener. Not saying I don't want to, but usually just doesn't work out schedule wise. I do plan on going out within the next couple weeks to take a doe in the clover plot.

 

[loneranger]

Sweat-bugs-leaves,me either. Bucks of any size don't appear on my little piece of ground until the rut anyway. Most seasons I have been in Iowa has been a fight to get a good frost until mid-Nov. Way too warm even in most of Nov. I know the stories of the good ole days when it was snowing by Halloween, but those days are history I think. Was the same way up in N-MI where I came from. Warm thru most of Oct.A warming planet? Naw ,,not going there..