Saw quite a few ice fisherman on one of the larger ponds in the area today, also the Connecticut River was almost totally frozen in Springfield, a few open spots but another week and it may be solid.
2015 started on January 26th so there's still time to pull off a good year, I wouldn't mind a lot of nickel and dime events either but would always welcome a 20+ incher.
My sister was a lifer, sometime ending up in the ER when she was younger, but they give her something now that has almost eliminated them, I'll have to ask her what it is, she's 61 now so maybe age related too.
That was the year I had 7 nights in a row below zero, he has 6 out 7 on that graph, I had two mornings -20, I lived in a good rad spot that year. The Connecticut River was frozen solid for a few weeks that year.
I had that happen in the 2005 winter, had a good two feet of snow and it was below zero. I was standing in the deep snow freezing while I pumped my basement out.
We had some cold with little snow years but also had cold and snowy years, I remember ice fishing with my uncle with little snow but thick ice one year and another year had thick ice with 2 feet of snow we had to clear to drill our holes.