OK, you got me! It was -2 F at noon today!! I'm getting too old for that.
Seriously, though, this has been a mild winter for us. It's been cold the past couple of weeks, but until mid-January, folks couln't even drive their vehicles on the ice for ice fishing. Primarily, we've been dry (no snow on the ground until the last week or so). When it's dry (brown), we can often see highs in the 40s, as long as one of the those big Arctic highs doesn't drop down here.
I was fishing this past weekend on one of the public lakes south of town, and we had about 12-13 inches of ice. I was fishing one of the Nebraska Sandhill lakes during the middle of last week, and they had about 5-7 inches.
So, would you accept a "moderately mild" winter?
Dave
