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Spent the day in Binghamton with my daughter who is thinking of attending ( I'm pushing Rutgers for both tuition and and tradition ) and we ran into several bad snow squalls in the Poconos, saw some areas with snow cover ( but not much ) and had flurries all day on campus. But even they said there wasn't the usual amount of snow this year. However, after enjoying mild temps all winter here, it was cold AF up there, like 21 degrees in the late morning. Not used to it.

Yup.But you can't keep any of the fish anyway, so its kinda bogus. Also, as NMFS itself once wrote to me, artificial reefs don't help fish populations, they just concentrate them. They said it, i didn't....

Seems like there are a number of baseball fans here ( not me ) and i'm wondering what the connection is; generally it isn't that big among the younger population. Thought it was more a thing for the older crowd who grew up before other games became more popular.

No but crap winters are not uncommon either. This one is exceptionally bad ( or good if you hate snow and cold )but there have been plenty that were bad, but not this bad. Come on, we saw years of them in the 80's and 90's. Now, sometimes areas in the subforum got hits while others didn't; so that didn't change the fact that IMBY years like 89, 90, 91, 97, 98 were pretty bad. Even 92 would still be considered bad, just because we got two events in late March doesn't make up for a poor winter. i'd say under 20 inches for the season is bad.

Well, who has been right more? There are seasons like this. Sometimes several in a row. Sometimes more than that IIRC ( I listed some years in another thread ). It would be the smart bet to go against any additional snow the rest of this year, but of course no one can say for sure.

Well Lyme is certainly both a mid and long term threat, and it is most certainly related to the weather....now back to your regularly scheduled upcoming cutter/rainstorm/ inland sleet slush / cloudy drizzle and mid 50's temps in the middle of Feb....and watch out for those ticks!

Only managed 8 here. Every storm that winter skirted my area. But was still epic by this years standards; the 12/09 storm gave us 10, 2/6 gave us 3, 2/10 gave us 11, 2/26 gave us 8. Though some sources in nearby towns had12-13. I didn't measure. Who really cares right?

Apparently epidemiologists predicted an increase in Lyme cases a few years back based on the numbers of acorns....more acorns, more places for mice to nest, more ticks, if my understanding was correct. had a Lone star tick ( not native to this region ) hanging out on my back side for a couple days, though it was a scab ( they are tricky ) I was lucky I do not show signs of meat allergy, which this tick can trigger. This winter has probably been warm enough that both ticks and mice remained active ( I know the mice are; they got shocked the few cold days we had and I saw a few frozen in the shed, don't get me started on hantavirus...)

But that year had already featured a nice blizzard earlier. This year has been as putrid as they come. I guess we get our few storms early on now and then nada for the remainder with a possible shot in March, when the snow can melt as fast as it falls....

Well, most folks who move there don't like snow, so I don't think it will make them very happy.....in fact NC is a retirement destination for "half backs" people who went to FL but decided the heat was too much, and they'd rather have four seasons with no or very little snow. Course, they could get that right here this year....

Agreed Don, but will say that we are experiencing extremes right now....again, spring like weather with flowers blooming and insects flying around outside....and grass that has remained green ( some of which is growing ) and herbs and wild plants that are green and growing. I'd call that extreme. This should be our best time of year for snow.

You couldn't even afford to waste money on bloodworms today....I used sandworms because they were cheaper ( when I had a boat ) but in my youth I used earthworms I could dig in the backyard...

An education is never wasted. I too am fast approaching the autumn years, and have dodged major bullets already.

heard something interesting today on a discussion about people in Mississippi back in the day making "snow ice cream" which means they must've have had some snow at times back when....

Another nice day with insects flying about in my yard.....grass and herbs still green. I guess this is what winters in the South are like....

i used to throw a line with a flounder rig off the the dead end streets in Sea Bright in the early 80's, and catch enough flounder on the incoming tide to feed the family. I'd use earthworms....even if you could catch something today, you probably wouldn't be allowed to fish there...

So how long did you teach lit? Ten years for me....

88, 89, 90, 91, 92......97,98, 99, 2000, that's 8 years of bum winters right there, even if 92 and 2000 had some late bonus stuff ( and 2000's big event was the 2000-01 winter ). You can throw in 80, 81, 84, 85, and 86, if you don't go in succession, and that's another 5 years of little snow. 13 years of not much to write home about. An incredible run. If I add in the 70's...you get the point. In fact, 93 and 95 had only one serious event each; without 94 and 96 the 90's are fairly putrid. Did not use a snowblower from 97-2000. It can and will happen again, and ultimately will be the default winter in these parts if scientists are correct.

trawlers actually do have restrictions these days, on mesh sizes as well as seasons and size limits. None of which helps much as the damage is done. went out in the late fall and could find nothing but horned dogfish from Rockaway point to the doughnut to the Shrewsbury Rocks. Thick. Can't keep them, as its a shark...I catch more fish in my local creek and bigger ones too, than you can catch in the bay these days.

terrifying storm. I was buying bait at a waterfront tackle shop near the Arthur Kill. I believe it was a derecho? Rare for around here.....

The storms in 14-15 were uniformly lame, as well....

We are in a snow drought no doubt. Hope its not a long term pattern. But I've seen that happen.

Actually that isn't unusual. For example, the 2/610 storm left me with about 3, but folks in Metuchen had more ( the difference between 3 and 6 in very noticeable )and as you went further south it kept going up. My wife just unearthed some photos we have from around the Camden aquarium when the kids were little, the day after the blizzard. Incredibly the aquarium was open and the streets were quite clear; you can see the mountains of snow all along the Delaware river....

You may be the only person in the tristate area who does.....I may like a good snowstorm, but digging out? that's not for me....was reading an article about "halfbacks" people who wanted to retire where there was no snow ( specifically ) and wound up in FL but the place is so hot for so many months they found that equally intolerable ( I can sympathize )so they go "halfway" back to their origin state ( usually the northeast or upper midwest ) to SC, NC, Ga, etc....four seasons with mild winters and very rare snow ( believe Atlanta might have more snow than us this year ). I gotta admit I'm not missing the snow much this year. It'll be back.

I'm way past it and looking at seed catalogs. I'd organize the tackle box but after 40 years, i don't wanna mess with tradition....saltwater fishing has gotten so bad I have rigs I'll never use again ( winter flounder, whiting, fluke ) due to the disappearance of the species or draconian regulations. A proposed 3 bluefish limit this year....a fish once so bountiful people didn't even want them.