Well the 40+ degree temps cleared the drive and the car is in the barn.We're getting the Artic blast tonight minus the snow.....Thank you weather God!
With the melt and rain the river should be clear for the Steelhead Junkies this weekend,good luc......wait I forgot the 3 to 5 feet of snow coming,bring a snowmobile!

It is 5 here in Rochester, with wind chills at -15, and getting worse. I am glad I'm not in S. Buffalo (36" forecast) or Boylston (80" forecast) tonight.  10 minutes doing the trash outside with the fishing gloves on  and I had to keep the index in an armpit for 5 to thaw the frostbite.  Hunker down tonight, it's not fit for man nor beast out there! 
 
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2 below here with wind chills that are scary.  Took the dog out, she pooped and peed at the same time for the first time ever! Started finger frostbite in under a minute, switched leash hands, and got her back in the house VERY quickly.  Only a couple of inches but last night with the wind driving was all but impossible.  Cold is coming right through the walls, definitely a sweater day today! 
 
Stay Safe out there!
 
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-5 in my back yard, I would guess (since the kayaks all blew into the field from their rack) that the wind topped 50mph gusts, and forgetting my cold weather prodocall, I let the bed room bath pipes freeze, so a day full of fix it projects now

Has anyone heard from Al Gore?......Al when does that warming start?    Al you listening?......Where are you Al?
 
It's a balmy 0 here in SE Penna. and the Sun is shining.......and I still hate winter!

I've been on several glaciers 30 years apart, one in Alberta, one in the Sierra. It's absolutely incredible how far the headwalls have receded.  I climbed nearly 1,000 in elevation over moraine and talus, basically bare rock,  in Sept. that was 100's of feet deep in ice in the late 70's. It's one thing to see it on a PBS special, it's another to see the decimation first hand. Mixed in with the very dry,warm years are ridiculous snowy winters- 100 year events- that happen with greater frequency. In 2011 the Sierra  had snow on the passes in the end of August and stream crossings were raging with snow melt. I had an iceberg float into a cove of a lake I was fishing for Goldens, and put down the feeding!  The lakes above 11,000 were still icing out! Closer to home, the slides created on the mountains in NY and Vermont are something I've never seen in my lifetime. Whole mountainsides stripped of trees and soil by Hurricane Irene. Something's wrong. That's all I'll say, something's wrong.

We're going to be in teens by this PM here, and they are calling for over 50 and area wide rain all day Saturday.  I don't think I'll get to fish the Genny all winter again, and hardwater on Hemlock and Canadice does not look too likely unless we get some "normal" winter weather for a few weeks.  Might have to put the canoe on the car, and set the tip ups in little inner tubes!
 
Good luck up north there is a lot of water on them hills right now!
 
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Andy Borowitz:

The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said “so much for global warming” and similar comments were punched in the face.
Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head regions.
In an emergency room in St. Paul, Harland Dorrinson, forty-one, was waiting to be treated for bruising to the facial area after he made a crack about how the below-freezing temperatures meant that climate-change activists were full of ****.
“I’d just finished saying it and boom, out of nowhere someone punched me in the face,” he said. “This polar vortex is really dangerous.”
 
From the Atlantic.
Wish I could be that clever!

Please don't hit me guys as I really know little about it.However,I still remember when Al was tearing around the country selling his theory,and making a lot of money,he was using a private jet to carry his body around.I thought he should have at least gone first class commericial to carry his body with a bunch of others to sell his story.
By the way I read somewhere that some glaciers are actually increasing....makes one confused to say the least.

I love this stuff.
We all know there are seashells in the Sahara Desert as it was once underwater and then a lush jungle after most of the waters receded.. Somebody decided to go and find out exactly WHEN the change came.
 Hmmmm how to do that- OK go out in the ocean where the prevailing winds blow sand remnants and bore holes to see how old the first layers of Sahara sand exist.
 Scientists were SHOCKED to find many layers of sand- not just  the one they were looking for.
 Seems that every 20,000 years of so for hundreds of thousands  of years the Sahara swings from ocean to tropics to desert. I understand that to mean a 40,000 swing from one extreme to the other.
   As has been said we DO contribute to the warming but climate change and cyclical issues therein have been going on for a VERY long time-even without us around.
 Do we make it quicker-perhaps- but its gonna happen depsite us.
 This stuff is why I love the history and Discovery  kinda channels.

Well, they're getting ready. It bumped up to 1500.

Gotta say, wish I could be fishing more this season... despite very cold temps, water levels have been consistently changing which usually livens fish and brings new fish... instead of tired sleep mode fish that hunker down to a stable 185-335 cfs for months sraight

The weekend before this past Christmas was handled well... they maxxed at a 3500 release during a 2+ ft. Snowmelt... Since then there have been two warming trends. 1 was the weekend after Christmas with warm air in the 40's for almost two days with rain. Then this past Sunday with warm pouring rain for 8 hours... huge amounts of snow melt coupled with heavy wet precip. They are definitely playing catch up. If this weekend is a huge flood event its not just from this coming weekends event. I'd say their 1500 release now is clutch and a catch up just as much as a prep.

Twobob... yes, its about time the know it alls and wannabes get heard :) ... what about the a*s clowns??? :) lol!!!

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Gotta say, wish I could be fishing more this season... despite very cold temps, water levels have been consistently changing which usually livens fish and brings new fish... instead of tired sleep mode fish that hunker down to a stable 185-335 cfs for months sraight

Andy, there is  more fresh fish this winter. Not chrome up river , but certainly not all dark and tired, either.  I'll be watching this high water and try to go after it goes down and stabilizes. Actually a good scenario if it doesn't go too high. The too high is more for humans though, the fish seem to survive. That's a great point about the changing levels.  Last time out I was surprised how well the fish fought and looked.  Hope you get out there.
 

This has nothing to do with the SR but they have flood warnings going up all over the major river systems in SE Penna,NJ due to present/potential ice jams and rain coming Saturday.