Winters finally HERE!
 

And I called work off for the day.... maybe the rest of the week. Looks like I might be able to ice fish my lake after-all.

http://images.intellicast.com/App_Im...hite/wx_85.png Clear 7°F
Feels Like: -14° Wind Chill: -14° Ceiling: Unl Heat Index: 7° Visibility: 10mi Dew Point: -7° Wind: 24mph Humidity: 53% Direction: 280° (W) Pressure: 29.88" Gusts: 33mph

must be nice to have a choice about going out.


Tuesday
snow Overcast with a chance of snow in the morning, then mostly cloudy with snow showers. High of 18F with a windchill as low as -9F. Windy. Winds from the West at 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Chance of snow 60% with accumulations up to 1 in. possible.

Tuesday Night
nt_snow Mostly cloudy with snow showers, then a chance of snow after midnight. Low of 5F with a windchill as low as -4F. Winds from the WNW at 5 to 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph. Chance of snow 80% with accumulations up to 5 in. possible.

I heard you and upper NY could get whacked with snow. Here it's just the wind and cold.

Having choices is good, but doesn't do well when the wife has to go in. hehehe.

hopefully it will be overnight so not many are out when its going on, lake effect, wind, and cold really suck when its at the same time

John what kinda set up you have when ice fishing?
I have seen some set up canvas tents, even a wood burning stove or propane inside, where the exhaust comes out the ole top of tent hole!
Hot chocolate - Fishing - in serous sub zero!

Set up? Hmm. A plastic chair with a thermal seat on it. :-P I don't get huts. I dress for the weather and put up 5 tip-ups far apart from each other and use a jigging pole while waiting for a fish to strike a tip-up. Doing this it is real hard to imagine being in a hut. But then, I always come home with FISH....I'll post some pics after dinner.

Temperatures like those, keep me gainfully employed.

1 degree truck didn't want to start so it's plugged in today and my hood won't open.. We got about 8" in two days

Weird, it was 10 this morning and my truck started just fine this morning.

Plugged in? C'mon, mine started just fine here in the insane low temps.

Of course, the optima yellow top I put in made a huge difference.

Only thing I hate, is my doors don't want to seem to seal right. I really have to slam on the drivers door to get it to catch all the way and seal around the edge. Even then, sometimes it seems like it is tweaked open a little, and the wind noise drives me nuts.

Oh, and its cold enough that somehow my wiper nozzles froze up. Even with the non-freezing kinda washer fluid in there. Not sure how that happened, but trying to drive home looking through a muddy windshield wasn't fun. Or safe.