foot of snow today WTF

**olboatman** · 04-04-2018, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by XstreamVking

90 here in sunny fla. Too damn hot already and it's only April. Gonna be a brutal summer....

Cullen Please twist the knife while you have it inserted! Better yet keep kickin while ya got me down!!!! lol
Gary

**olboatman** · 04-04-2018, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by olboatman

Cullen Please twist the knife while you have it inserted! Better yet keep kickin while ya got me down!!!! lol
Gary

Better yet if ya keep it up I'm gonna fly down there and ya will have to put up with my BS! Really though I'm gonna have some questions for you
about nonwood transom cores when I start my Checkmate resto project.
Gary

**eli** · 04-06-2018, 09:40 AM

3 more inches today more Saturday there's always 4th July to go boating

**XstreamVking** · 04-06-2018, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by olboatman

Better yet if ya keep it up I'm gonna fly down there and ya will have to put up with my BS! Really though I'm gonna have some questions for you
about nonwood transom cores when I start my Checkmate resto project.
Gary

Good time to be here Gary. Lot of the tourists are heading back up nawth with their motor homes and the roads are getting better. Place was a real zoo for a while. Never seen traffic so bad.

**FMP** · 04-06-2018, 10:16 AM

You would hate Toronto for its traffic, a few miles takes over an hour minimum during most of the day.
Add a little snow and it's over!
Tarpons, too early?

**XstreamVking** · 04-06-2018, 10:37 AM

Real close to Tarpon time. I have been chasing some tarpon hanging in a canal basin off the Caloosahatchee river. Small fish in the 30-50 pound range. Fun to catch. Most of my customers really want the big ones in the 100+ size range that we target out in the gulf or open bays. There are some fish here, but not the large pods that really get things going. Bait is not abundant yet. All at once you will see bait, the tarpon and followed by the large sharks.

**FMP** · 04-06-2018, 10:50 AM

Wild! That's something I must do.

Large sharks, that's why I'd never go swimming. Just hanging out over the drop off waiting to take revenge for all the fish I've caught up here.

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 10:11 AM

Great Lakes surface temp comparison years 17/18 . If you're around the lakes its colder this year and the levels are higher which could keep things cooler for longer .

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 10:15 AM

**mr fun** · 04-08-2018, 10:19 AM

makes me think of flooding in a few months when it all melts and heads to the gulf

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 10:37 AM

The amount which leaves the basin into the Mississippi is very small , through the Chicago diversion. It really doesn't have much impact on downriver conditions. Even with all gates open unless upper Mississippi watershed snow melt is extreme. Regulations prevent anything more than what's rule to be diverted. Conditions aren't warranted for anything like that.
The upper tributaries and basins of the the rivers that feed the Muddy are all important factors in how much is coming. Rain and snow melt takes its time getting down.
This is what has fallen as rain in the last 30 days

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 10:49 AM

Departure from normal, as seen Great Lakes Basin has been dry.

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 10:53 AM

Snow water equiv on the ground, not much outside the basin, lightest blue is 2" water , grey is a trace.

**olboatman** · 04-08-2018, 06:50 PM

Great stuff Frank! I see you are a weather geek also.....since I was a kid.Gary

**FMP** · 04-08-2018, 07:27 PM

Look out , nerd alert.
Those precip maps seem to be updating. Couldn't bother isolated pics but you get the idea.
US government weather sites have amazing info available.