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Is it here yet?
They pumping water across?
I'm gunning for Saturday morning in the marsh. I can't miss the chance to get some edge birds. Then again, they all my blow the F out of here and I'll get to watch the snow fall on the decoys. Either way, I can't wait.
Was out this morning and bird numbers where I was were up a ton from a week ago. We're flying hard in the weather and made for an easy limit.I'm gunning for Saturday morning in the marsh. I can't miss the chance to get some edge birds. Then again, they all my blow the F out of here and I'll get to watch the snow fall on the decoys. Either way, I can't wait.
Heated bird bath sounds like a death sentence when it’s below zero. Birdsicles
They need a new word for big snow storms...Snowapocalypse is getting lame. Why don't they say rainapocalypse, or windapocalypse...?
Farmers are effed. There will be about a 10% harvest this year. Pheasants are all going to die the day before the opener. Glad I received and filled a pronghorn tag this year as they’re likely to go extinct after this weekend. Maybe scientists will use DNA from my antelope sausage to create some kind hybrid pronghorn coyote in a laboratory to keep the species from disappearing entirely.
Wags, I think the trick here is all in the timing of the switch from rain to snow, and then where you measure. That first image in the sitrep suggests we in the Bis to Langdon axis of the first storm (before Friday) will see around 12 inches of snow. The ground is still warm and will melt snow as it comes into contact with it, so best chance for the stuff to accumulate more is in grassy areas where the snow gets elevated above the warm'ish ground.
Starting Friday, it's going to be round two of something that is right now a little wider in scope (that should narrow in the forecast as we go forward), but again from Bismarck to Bottineau and all the way to the Red is going to get another serving of water. Don't be surprised, but if this holds together a lot of the same areas will see another 10+ inches of snow. By then it will likely fall on top of a snowpack that has already shrunk due to melting and compaction, so by Sunday those that got two good doses of whiteness will probably have something around 12-18 inches of slop on the ground and a lot of mud underneath it.
Of course, that's just my take on it, but I'm also not a meteorologist...nor do I usually try to interpret the models themselves. It's just based on the NWS forecasts and what I expect to happen to the white stuff after it hits the ground.
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p.s. The NWS is a gov't agency, user friendly features come at quite the cost in details and accuracy.