Storm this week

[bturck]

[boxcar46]

Weather Underground

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy with ice pellets and rain in the evening, then overcast with ice pellets and rain. Low of 32F with a windchill as low as 25F. Winds from the SSE at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70% .

Friday

Overcast with ice pellets and snow, then snow in the afternoon. High of 36F. Winds from the ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 80% with accumulations up to 1 in. possible.

Friday Night

Overcast with snow. Low of 0F. Breezy. Winds from the NNE at 15 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 100% with accumulations up to 8 in. possible.

Saturday

Overcast with a chance of snow in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. High of 7F with a windchill as low as -15F. Breezy. Winds from the NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 50% with accumulations up to 2 in. possible.

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy in the evening, then overcast. Fog overnight. Low of -15F with a windchill as low as -24F. Winds from the NNW at 5 to 15 mph.

[OLE77]

This is what the NORTHERN SOTANS live for. Bring it on.Better fishing better trails....

[Twisted]

This is what the NORTHERN SOTANS live for. Bring it on.Better fishing better trails....

True. It keeps the riff raff out of this great area. I happen to love the challenge of living up here.

[jerkbait]

Ditto!

[Boar]

Yea, tru dat. I miss te really winters wen we had so much snow the burms on the street were as high as the tops of cars. Made great tunneling for kids. Seeems like lately its just an on going spring.

[Twisted]

See ya guys up there. Good luck & stay safe.

[northerndave]

stay safe.

You're not the boss of me.

[Boar]

neener neeer neeeeener.

[bturck]

boar i didn't think you were that old to remember those kinds of winters. you've aged well

[Boar]

Like a bottle of scotch, yuck pooey stuff. but i still look good.

[bturck]

Gets better with age, after the first one the rest taste pretty good

[northerndave]

So glad me and my boy came up to the lake tonight. We have a pair of 20' ice castles up here and they were both sitting in 4" of water, which would have been solid ice by morning.

Cranked them both up and moved to new spots.

[Boar]

Wow. good save dave. Guess I'll pop mine out next weekend an re set.

[northerndave]

There are a couple more crank units within my dark thirty eyeshot. Dont know who's they arewere but I may try to walk to them and crank them up if the frames are in water. Jeezus i'm tired, it is not nice out here.

[northerndave]

2 of the 3 I checked were good, one was freezing down, frame below the water so i cranked it up.

[Walleyehooker]

Gonna be a lot of people chiseling ice up there this weekend.

[northerndave]

Fraid that's true. Some won't get by with a chisel. I know we would have been some very sad fishermen if we would have waited till tomorrow or sunday to come up and check things.

[Boar]

Great to have guys like you out ther dave, not many people would take the time to do what you did. Hats off bud.

[jjohnson5150]

There are a couple more crank units within my dark thirty eyeshot. Dont know who's they arewere but I may try to walk to them and crank them up if the frames are in water. Jeezus i'm tired, it is not nice out here.

Stud move Bro!

Man, just think of what the resorts had to do yesterday with all the skid houses. Wouldn't they have had to block each of them up? 20+ houses each - most were probably full for Fri fishing?

[fiskyknut]

Good for you NDave. Karma, perhaps the Eelpout will swarm under your hut today !! Are the Red and the Blach Ice Castles yours?

We ran out thursday nite and blocked up 2 huts way high. Musta been real sloppy yesterday.

Here in Roseau we did'nt get near the snow overnite that was forecast. There are some good sized drifts in the 'hood though !

[CANOPY SAM]

You neither, eh Fisky? We were actually hoping to see more snow down here, and I'd guess we'd be lucky if we got a total of 3 inches. Guess those weather Nazis were right again!

Ditto on what Boar said Dave. You're a good guy!

[Sea Hage]

Ata Boy Dave,Hats off to you. Mine is sitting up on it's wheels on Morris Point road,I'm 6 hours away so I never leave it flat on the ice, anyone know how much water was on top the ice ?

[White-tips]

Weather terrorists had everyone a 'lil nervous I think. Very 'lil snow in S. RRV. Roads are awful though.

[Boar]

Well lets hope the weahter stabilizes after this cause next wekend it a slabfest an Im gonna play with some marbles to win.

[only ice]

Heading up Sunday, Proctor,DeerRiver,Red, to Baudett. Any road info would be great. Thanks.

[eyesonly]

Ok Fellas Im confused. Ive been Fretting about the weather all week for our upcoming trip and are you guys telling me you only got maybe 2-3 inches around the Lake ? has the storm passed ? Not nearly what the weather terrorists were planning for.

[CANOPY SAM]

It does look like the weather is going to stabilize for the rest of next week. Forecast (via weather Nazis) is for cold, cold, cold, and then some more cold, followed by cold...with intermittent darkness, followed by periods of light. Then more darkness.

Roads are shot up here too White-tips. With the cold temps we have now it might be a few days till they start to sublime and dry off. Our driveway is a skating rink, covered with large finger drifts. With the wind blowing as hard as it is right now, I figure if I wait long enough I shouldn't even have to move any snow. Hoping the wind will do it for me!

[CANOPY SAM]

Yes eyesonly. It looks like the heaviest snow stayed west and north of us. However, we received a lot of freezing rain...had this come down as snow I think we would have been right in the neighborhood of the "predicted" snowfall totals.

Everything up here is covered in a layer of ice, covered by snow. The wind is howling, and it's really freakin' cold! Traveling around here would likely be a "white knuckler" right now.

[northerndave]

Well, me and my boy have 4 keeps in the pail, destined for the pan.

I dont think there's water on top of the ice in most places. Our troubles were from sagging ice under our 5000 lb houses, water bowls. Hopefully not too many folks will find their houses froze down.

The wind is a problem, we had some trouble with our honda 2000 generator last night due to the raw wind and blowing snow. We couldnt get it out of that wind, there was no escaping it.

Also our dam furnace ran full time through the night to keep us warm.

Someone asked which houses we moved. Ours are a pair of tandem axle ice castles. One red and one charcoal gray. Ours is the gray one, my uncles is the red one.