The Real Buffalo Joe Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I had to wear a light jacket yesterday. Was ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 South and east of Boston they may get up to 5" - north and west 1-3" - just a dusting this time but there are murmurs about another storm this weekend (I think they are holding off saying anything for fear people are just going to snap). Good. This is not going to let up until they give the ill gotten Lombardi Trophy back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Buffalo is awful. Temps have not gotten above 0 for the last 48 hours. Easy 3 feet on the ground with drifts in areas higher than my chain link fence. I legit had to shovel around the outside of my yard, near the fence, so that my puppy couldn't walk over the fence and escape. Not that she wants to spend more than 2 minutes outside anyways... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Been a long, cold winter in and about Philadelphia. Not as much snow as last year, but colder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobu Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Where everyone lives? Was last year worse for everyone or this year? It has been a mild winter here in GB. We only have an inch on the ground. Last year we had snow on the ground till late March and the year before it was early April. I am in Madison ice and it has been a pretty strange winter by Wisconsin standards, not much snow. Colder than all get out lately though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Really cold here in Rochester. The roads are all icy because its too cold to melt it at all and cars have just compacted the snow. Luckily I'm rocking unemployment so I rarely have to go outside haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The polar plunge seems to have shifted a bit east this winter. I will take it, mild here @ 14 above. Better than 14 below. They said that ice was still dropping out of the Sea Caves @ the Apostle Islands last year in JULY! Like the OP said... Kinda mild this winter with not a lot of snow, only big accumulation came in that one storm on Super Bowl Sunday. Only 37" all season, that seems to be average for a whole Chicago winter. Buffalo is awful. Temps have not gotten above 0 for the last 48 hours. Easy 3 feet on the ground with drifts in areas higher than my chain link fence. I legit had to shovel around the outside of my yard, near the fence, so that my puppy couldn't walk over the fence and escape. Not that she wants to spend more than 2 minutes outside anyways... One of BFLO's claim to fame has always been: "We get a lot of snow but not the cold." LMAO... Now you have both! We usually get the cold here and little snow. Now we have a little snow and warmer temps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Anchorage officially got 14" snow all winter but I doubt I got more than 5. Warmest winter in Alaska history. most days 25 or 30. above. I have about 2" on the ground right now. Iditarod start moved North to Fairbanks due to lack of snow in the Alaska range. Say ice while you're here I was listening to one of the local AM talk show guys and he had a caller from Wisconsin on. Why I don't know I missed the beginning. Anyway the caller was talking about catching sturgeon though the ice on lake Winnebago. Is it true there are sturgeon there? Did you ever catch one? I would love to catch one of those prehistoric monsters. I think you have to spear them through the ice. I know they catch them on the WI River near The Dells/Baraboo. @ mid-point of the 1800's there were so many sturgeon in The Great Lakes region that they would stack 'em like cordwood. LakeSturgeon.pdf "...Seldom has a fish had such a tenuous relationship to humans as the lake sturgeon. The Winnebago, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Oneida and Sauk tribes revered the huge fish that can reach weights of several hundred pounds, but by 1860 the lake sturgeon was considered a nuisance by commercial fisherman, who stacked the fish like cordwood on shore and left them to rot. When fish processors realized the value of sturgeon roe (eggs) for caviar, discovered sturgeon flesh was delicious fresh or smoked and found that a high‐quality gelatin called isinglass could be extracted from the sturgeon’s swim bladder, the Great Lakes sturgeon fishery exploded. The species was fished so intensively that lake sturgeon populations were reduced to a level from which they have never recovered. ..." "...In February, sturgeon can be speared through the ice on Lake Winnebago, and every five years in the smaller, upriver lakes (Poygan, Winneconne and Big Lake Butte des Morts). Spears with wood or metal handles six to nine feet long with three to eight barbed tines are used to catch the sturgeon through holes in the ice about three feet wide and five feet long. The handle detaches when a fish is speared, making it possible to play the fish on a long line. The record lake sturgeon speared in Wisconsin was a 195‐poke under taken in 1979 from Pokegama Lain Vilas County. ..." Edited February 17, 2015 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beef Jerky Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Horrible b.c I love snow and jersey shore is like a hole when it comes to weather... So odd. I am wondering if Octavia will give me enough to use my snow blower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I think you have to spear them through the ice. I know they catch them on the WI River near The Dells/Baraboo. @ mid-point of the 1800's there were so many sturgeon in The Great Lakes region that they would stack 'em like cordwood. LakeSturgeon.pdf "...Seldom has a fish had such a tenuous relationship to humans as the lake sturgeon. The Winnebago, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Oneida and Sauk tribes revered the huge fish that can reach weights of several hundred pounds, but by 1860 the lake sturgeon was considered a nuisance by commercial fisherman, who stacked the fish like cordwood on shore and left them to rot. When fish processors realized the value of sturgeon roe (eggs) for caviar, discovered sturgeon flesh was delicious fresh or smoked and found that a high‐quality gelatin called isinglass could be extracted from the sturgeon’s swim bladder, the Great Lakes sturgeon fishery exploded. The species was fished so intensively that lake sturgeon populations were reduced to a level from which they have never recovered. ..." "...In February, sturgeon can be speared through the ice on Lake Winnebago, and every five years in the smaller, upriver lakes (Poygan, Winneconne and Big Lake Butte des Morts). Spears with wood or metal handles six to nine feet long with three to eight barbed tines are used to catch the sturgeon through holes in the ice about three feet wide and five feet long. The handle detaches when a fish is speared, making it possible to play the fish on a long line. The record lake sturgeon speared in Wisconsin was a 195‐poke under taken in 1979 from Pokegama Lain Vilas County. ..." I remember hearing rumors of them In lake Erie and the Niagara river but never saw one. Strictly protected as I recall. Edited February 17, 2015 by Jim in Anchorage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I remember hearing rumors of them In lake Erie and the Niagara river but never saw one. Strictly protected as I recall. Yep! I think they are the only true native fish to The Lakes? Melting glaciers (Lakes) were a sterile ecosystem. Not sure how they were the first to get there...?? Paddlefish are up there to in age... MO and MI rivers... Same with gar. All pretty ancient species. I was watching a show on them snaggin paddlefish on the MO river, pretty neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Snowiest winter in years in NH. Ski areas love it because it's all fine powder thanks to how cold it's been. Didn't start until January but we've had one storm after another every few days, each dumping 6-14" and none of it has melted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Frickin cold, I think last year may have been colder over all but this February is ridicules, too much snow too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Babies! Tolerating cold is conditioning... Until your fingers and toes freeze off! :-O "Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have." ;-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 This latest deep freeze is making this winter catch-up to last winter: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/compare_years/ 76.6%=2015 81.4%=2014 Peak won't hit till late-February (if history is any indication) early-March. More deep freeze coming next week after slight moderation this weekend and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Got about 4 inches of snow overnight and a day off I forgot how much I hate shoveling snow Edited February 17, 2015 by /dev/null Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan-4-Ever Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 1 to 15 degrees F and 4 inches of powder overnight Other than the one idiot going 40 in a 55 for 15 miles before I got onto the highway NOT problem getting from Leesburg to Mclean VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I think you have to spear them through the ice. I know they catch them on the WI River near The Dells/Baraboo. @ mid-point of the 1800's there were so many sturgeon in The Great Lakes region that they would stack 'em like cordwood. LakeSturgeon.pdf "...Seldom has a fish had such a tenuous relationship to humans as the lake sturgeon. The Winnebago, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Oneida and Sauk tribes revered the huge fish that can reach weights of several hundred pounds, but by 1860 the lake sturgeon was considered a nuisance by commercial fisherman, who stacked the fish like cordwood on shore and left them to rot. When fish processors realized the value of sturgeon roe (eggs) for caviar, discovered sturgeon flesh was delicious fresh or smoked and found that a high‐quality gelatin called isinglass could be extracted from the sturgeon’s swim bladder, the Great Lakes sturgeon fishery exploded. The species was fished so intensively that lake sturgeon populations were reduced to a level from which they have never recovered. ..." "...In February, sturgeon can be speared through the ice on Lake Winnebago, and every five years in the smaller, upriver lakes (Poygan, Winneconne and Big Lake Butte des Morts). Spears with wood or metal handles six to nine feet long with three to eight barbed tines are used to catch the sturgeon through holes in the ice about three feet wide and five feet long. The handle detaches when a fish is speared, making it possible to play the fish on a long line. The record lake sturgeon speared in Wisconsin was a 195‐poke under taken in 1979 from Pokegama Lain Vilas County. ..." I held a sturgeon in the Hudson river when I worked with the State. The are very similar to the fish you are describing here. It was huge. Took me and two other people to hold it. Really boney flesh and strong as a mofo. It was like holding a dinosaur I've had some cool jobs haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Does everybody assume that everybody else knows where you live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 It's been a typical winter in Austin, TX - lots of 50's & 60's with only a handful of nights under 32 degrees. No ice storms yet, not a single flake of snow. It was 83 degrees this past Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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