Timing
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- Timing · Weather and windWinter scores flag fawn risk for the next fallMinnesota and Wisconsin score cold days and deep-snow days on different cutoffs. In collared Upper Peninsula does, the date the snow left mattered more to survival than the running score.
- Timing · Weather and windFall turnover evens lake temperature weeks before deep oxygen recoversOn a monitored Minnesota lake in 1998 temperature matched top to bottom by early November while deep oxygen sat near half of saturation. Near-full recharge came in December.
- Timing · Weather and windA rapid barometer fall is less than an inch of water to a fishThe weather service's rapid hourly fall equals about 0.82 inch of water while one foot of depth is 14.7 times that. A 2013 Lake Bemidji tank trial found no significant pressure effect on perch feeding.
- Timing · Weather and windOctober Slowdowns and Cold Fronts: Evidence From Deer Collars and 29,777 Archery KillsThe collar research we could examine offers little evidence of movement changes tied to cold fronts or temperature. Minnesota's 2025 archery records show much larger kill counts on Saturdays than Tuesdays. Across these files, clock time and calendar timing account for bigger differences than fronts.2.31×Saturday against Tuesday archery kills in Minnesota, October 2025
- Timing · Weather and windHow Much Faith Should Deer Hunters Put in Weather Data?Temperature has the strongest evidence, drawn from one herd in South Carolina. Pressure showed opposing activity relationships across sexes and seasons. Cold-front samples remain too small to guide a sit. Changing the definition can space front alerts four days apart or ten days apart.0.57modeled daytime activity of breeding-season females at 50 F, 0.31 at 86 F
- Timing · Weather and windThe Wind You Can't See: Thermals and the Stand That Gets Busted on a Perfect WindForecasts show one wind arrow. Wherever there is a hill, another current follows the sun: up as ground warms, down as it cools. It routinely overrules planned wind, helping explain why careful hunters still get winded. The arrow omits it.
- Timing · Weather and windWhen to Trust Your Wind Forecast, and When It's LyingForecast wind arrows become measurably less dependable when the weather is calm, clear, and cold: the familiar perfect morning. Why forecasts for a single spot fail in the woods, and how to assess scent risk before heading in.45%of calm, clear nights had wind swing over 90 degrees off its usual direction