It is raining on DEMEBER 31

[Snake River King]

This sucks why not! We can make ice alittle more unsafe and get rid of the rest of the snow we had, mabey I should move to a southern state then I don't have to worry about getting ice so I don't have think about it,

[LMITOUT]

Finally switched over to snow here a few hours ago after raining almost all day yesterday. Snowing pretty good now and should really make for a mess out there.

[Pary]

i know!!! i took this week off to do some ice fishing in the metro cities but it looks like it ain't gonna happen.

[woodman]

Arrived in Bemidji at 1:15 this am from vacation and it was pouring out. The snow is gone and the lakes are full of water and no snow. My houses are staying in the yard until the lakes freeze up good and sturdy. I will be sitting in the house in the driveway dreaming of sitting on a lake. I can not believe this weather again this winter. Come on cold, we want you!

[eyepatrol]

I'm re-charging my deep cycles, re-spooling my spinning reels, baitcasting reels, sharpening my hooks on my cranks and jigs getting ready for the lakes to open back up! Shouldn't be long now!!!

[LMITOUT]

Eric, I'd go gas up that new boat and get that ready too. Probably wouldn't hurt to stock up on crawlers and minnows now before the rush.

That should do the trick to getting us more ice.

[eyepatrol]

Boat has gas! Minnows are ready! Crawlers might be tough to come by though....got Berkley Gulp though!

Everybody's wanting cold and we're getting warmth. Maybe we gotta start talking warmth and it'll get cold?!?!?! Gotta be a psychological name for that type of thinking right?

[bgreen82]

give mother nature a little reverse psychology huh. can you imagine what it is gonna be like 10 or 15 yrs from now if 14 of the last 15 winters have been the warmest ever. goll darn global warming.

[Zzapp]

As a native Minnesotan, I am, logically, in favor of global warming. I've frost-bitten enough digits for this lifetime.

HOWEVER, as an ice fisherman(person): this is ridiculous! For the past 10 years the better half and I have celebrated our late December anniversary in a shanty on Mille Lacs. Last year was close to not happening. This year wasn't even a question: if we can't drive out to the house, she won't go (we haven't even tried to get the 8x18 onto the lake yet).

At least the overnight rain (1+ inches) switched over to snow here in Elk River around 10AM. 2-3" since then. I think I'd better go make sure the snow blower is in tip-top shape!

TJ

[wayne123]

I think in the long run the rain is better for more ice than the snow. I think if the rain was snow we would have a foot of snow on the ice by now and then it would take forever to freeze up good. Of course at the rate we are going it may rain until spring.

[icecold]

Either way you look at things ,this snow is going to kill the icemaking process for ,quite some time, no real cold temps forcast at all in southern minnesota, I have at least 4 inches of snow on ground at this time.

[Jim43]

Snow just stopped and we ended up with 6 inches. This can`t be

good for the rain soaked ice from yesterday. Good 1 inch rain.

If anything this will push the ice down and all the snow

will become waterlogged. But will it freeze with no real cold

air moving in. Not good unless we have a siberian express cold

front come down with some -20 air for a week.

At least my son has something play in now, he came back in

soaked to the bone after 3 hours of sledding and building snow forts.

[Captain B.R.K]

This weather is a real downer! Was on the lake tonight with at least 1-2" of rain ontop of the ice, pretty sloppy and miserable.

The weekly forecast is for middle to upper 30's through next Sunday...puts a damper on ice-fishing plans.

AND the season looked so promising during the middle of December!

[CNY Tim]

It rained here in NY all last night, wondering when will have any ice

[Sandmannd]

I thought I woke up in Seattle yesterday morning and I don't think they ice fish out there.

[caseymcq]

When I got up yesterday I could see a lot of the lawn in my back yard. It was pouring like a banshee. By 6 p.m. I was out blowing snow. We ended up with 10" of the wet heavy stuff ontop of all that rain. This is going to make the lakes very sloppy We are supposed to get more later in the week . This will not make getting around for lake trout opener easy.

[Big D 1]

This is the second depressing winter in a row