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Took a few days away from my desk for the Holiday so I didn't get an update in for the end of December.This chart is a early look at the first couple weeks of January. The forecast is a little sloppy, Accuweather is calling for colder temps than Wunderground or the Weather Channel, and that puts more optimism in this chart than what I anticipated. Update: Had to correct the year on the Chart.
I enter Coudersport, PA into the weather service for the monthly forecast. I will make the note that for WeatherUnderground the Monthly forecast defaults to your nearest weather station. In that case it goes over to the Bradford Airport in McKean County.
1-8-24 Update.Once we get through this week things seem to be looking up, with all 3 forecasts showing at at least a full week without temps above freezing. My guess is that somebody will be fishing somewhere in PA the weekend of the 20th.
Me....it will be me
Thanks for posting the spreadsheet. I used it last year and created one for two of the lakes I fish in the Poconos. Just need to get the day things cap over. Is that how you set your “zero” point? Or do you adjust based upon reports? Curious about that.
I don’t set a day zero, the weekly count resets each Monday and the month is always from the first. I do however put reports in a column to the right to check my predictions against what I’m seeing on the ground.
1-22-24 UpdateFinally got some good ice but the snow covering on top of the fresh ice sheets definitely slowed down our growth. We can only hope that the snow cover pulls an uno reverse and protects the ice sheets from this warmup coming. Chart for the rest of January. Early outlook for February.