East-Central Illinois

Rained out more than ever in the past, sometimes for 3-4 days, and no snow the entire season. I never had to wear severe cold weather gear. Only wore one set of thermal under clothing, only had to use insulated gloves one morning, and never had to use my insulated boots the entire season. A few mornings when the sun came up it became warm enough for me to remove my hunting jacket and wear only my insulated camo sweatshirt, often the rest of the day until sundown.

The forest floors and grassy areas stayed damp the entire season. Made for perfect still hunting, but also allowed deer to move in/through without causing that heart- pounding rustle in the dry leaves...” is that deer moving in or a squirrel?”

As we moved into January the temps did fall into freezing off and on during the remaining 16 days of the season, but I stopped deer hunting during freezing weather a long time ago. Too miserable and eliminated the joy of hunting.

Went from sitting on the back deck during midday break and having hot coffee, to sometimes having a cold beer.

What sayeth you?

SW Michigan it got cold enough during December to wear all my cold weather gear and heat packs in my pockets. We’d get snow and then it would warm up enough to melt. Once in a while it would get to almost 50 for a couple of days and then cool off again. On average I would say it was warmer than usual.

MP

I hunt the N.C. Blue Ridge Mtns. I don't think I missed a weekend between Thanksgiving through December and every time it was warm enough (60-70 deg.F) for me to take my evening pre-hunt wash outside with an old military canvas bag shower.

The warmest hunting season I can remember. Not a single daytime high below 32 degrees. I'm finally doing something I should've done long ago. My deer hanging cooler is in the works

Mild here in Dec.

Warmer here than usual, no snow until real late in high county.

Pretty much normal here. Drier than last year but that is cyclical.

No white Christmas. Odd for here.

A lot of east wind this season.

Mostly warmer for me. Some snow for part of the rut. The bitter cold set in for December doe season. I wish I would have had more east wind!

Go back and see how many records were broken, if none, or not many, then it's all been done before. Weather is cyclical.

George Stout said: "Go back and see how many records were broken, if none, or not many, then it's all been done before. Weather is cyclical."

Yep...and then? What does that have to do with price of tea? I was simply asking about this season's weather conditions in one's area. Not for a debate regarding climate change.

We live in CO, at 6700' on the front range of the rocky mountains, a mile east of the AFA. It's been warmer and snowed less this winter than any other year since 1962.

Our weather was normal.

Recently we have been having Thunderstorms in winter. We rarely ever saw these at one time . It seems like once a week now at least. I am in Nova Scotia. It was a wet year 2021.

Windy! Leaves were off the trees early it seemed. Don't get much daylight traffic on my place once the leaves fall. The last deer I saw was the first week of november.

Rain rain and more rain in NY

Hunter in about every condition....kinda warm, rain to snow.

I'd say about normal here on the coast of Maine, although really cold of late.

Warm and rainy

Hunted in snake boots until weather pattern changed after Christmas. Now pattern is colder than normal. Snowing here this morning in South Alabama.

Well it could effect the price of tea on a particularly dry year I guess. :) I didn't direct it toward your original post, I directed it to those who immediately want to declare global warming. Earth has been warming and cooling since it came on the scene I 'spect.

Yea George, ya know...the weather changes huh...not sure about down your way but it changed to a bit below zero here this morning.

I hunted for a bit yesterday morning, don't need the meat, but I wanted to get out for the last day, anyway.

Truck said 13 here at the house, but once I got back in the mt...it said 2 where i parked..

Warm and WINDY!

First half of the season too hot to hunt. During the best week of the season, first week of November, ( pre-rut ) I came down with a bad cold. Sat it out. Second season only one good weather day and down with another bad cold. One day left and they are calling for 5 to 9 inches of snow. Time to hibernate.

We were a balmy 9 degrees here. I walked around the yard in my skivvies because I'm a tough country boy. Well, no. I did not do that at all...I bundled up like Randy in A Christmas Story and took care of the ducks and chickens. Next year it may 70 degrees, and the year after minus 20. Yessir, weather is dynamic and will do what it will do whenever it wants. Can we really argue about weather and keep a straight face? Well, it is the Leatherwall.

I was only asking how the weather was this season for others. Never intended to bring Al Gore or Greta Thunberg into the discussion. :-)

Warmer and wetter, fewer snowfalls, less snow when it did, and warmups during the day that melted what snow did fall. Not the best conditions compared to prior years.

spot on George

leaves completely off of trees by mid-december. flowers already popping up. warmest december i can remember. robins never left. finally snowed here today. got less than an inch...

We had a bad drought spring/ summer here, fall came around and we got caught up on rain, it was quite a relief and we had mild temps through mid December. Lately it’s been cold, below zero at night for days at a time, then the warm spells for a few days, finally can shoot a bit then, I don’t enjoy shooting if it’s less than ten degrees—

The question is how did it differ?

I'm not sure it really did, looking back over the years....I can remember some pretty warm starts to archery season, and I remember some frosty and snowy ones.

I remember killing a spike in the beginning of archery and the temp hit 90 degrees that day. Frankly I remember quite a few early archery seasons that I got soak and wet sweated going in.

I hunted during a hurricane one year, and pouring rain. I also hunted in an Oct snowstorm when the leaves were on the trees and they were crashing down all around me.

So how did this season differ?...honestly probably not a whole lot...at first glance it seemed more rainy, but that's just because it happened to rain on Sat when I'm off work...I hunted in warm,mild,rain,frost and snow....kinda typical PA weather.

I hunt in central Texas so I don’t have to deal with the very cold temps a lot of you have. It was an unusual warm season here especially in December reached into the mid 80s several times and even into the 90s once or twice, broke some records set back in the 1920s. A lot of west southwest wind , very dry had to change my setups for the wind change, but I had good season and put some meat in the freezer. January is much colder I now get enjoy the wood stove.

Weather and people have a lot in common: Unpredictable.

Weather here in Denver was dry. No appreciable moisture from August through December

the woods stayed green much later than normal in my opinion, the bush honeysuckle still had its leaves during gun season . weird. probably cuz it didn't get cold as it usually does but the deer hunting was still good. not going to bitch, I don't like being un necessarily cold !

Texas finally got cool weather in the end of December, and sub 40 weather the last week of December to 2 January.

Finally getting real winter here in CNY. Another bigger cold snap and snow. Still less than normal. Yup, George has it. Penn. is a perfect example of weather/climate extremes over the eons. Picture the Lehigh Tunnel, dug through what I believe is a terminal moraine of the last glacier to cover the surface of NA northern states, up to an estimated mile thick layer of ice. Extreme compared to now. And on the other end, PA coal and gas, oil was formed by vast reaches of tripical ferns and other lush growth, layered so thick for so long that it was pressured into anthricite. Extreme to the warm side. So we are worried about a little human influence on world temps? I don't think 'Man' should be so arrogant to think 'he' has that much power over the Creator of the natural world in which man has evolved in HIS likeness.

Lol, that is not what I intended.

Try again...:)

"I don't think 'Man' should be so arrogant to think 'he' has that much power over the Creator of the natural world in which man has evolved in HIS likeness." X2

Well said Cal!

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