I just looked at my journal for the last 5 years.
I have been taking stream temps for each outing to southwestern wisconsin.
My homewater is minimum 4 degrees colder than it was 5 years ago
and most streams have a 6 degree colder reading.
Anyone care to give an informed theroy on why this has happened?
George Bush did it 
Facetiousness will follow
Increasing temperatures worldwide have caused an increase in the amount of average snowmelt/glacial melting that is temporarily decreasing the temperature of your local waters.
Also, global warming CLEARLY only affects the oceans, the air, and land. Therefore, following the first (I think) law of thermodynamics, “all actions have an equal and opposite reaction”, small bodies of water get colder as temperatures elsewhere increase.
Ummm… Spinner1, how many glaciers are there in your part of Wisconsin?
Does anyone know what part of the oven I put the ice cube tray in to freeze while the roast is on?
I actually don’t want to be rude to the previous poster. I want to put a context on the ideas. Being an inveterate smart @$$, I can’t see another to make the same point. Once again, I apologize to the previous poster for what is sure to be insult taken if not intended. It is only the idea which I wish to offend against.
regards,
Ed
Spinner1,
I don’t think the temp difference from last year to this year means anything one way or another. Now I would be interested what your Journal said for the past 5 years.
Doug
Obvioulsy Google won’t let this thread be found.
YOu will have a visit from the “global warming” police soon for sure. YOu can’t post information on the internet that goes contrary to the idealism of the far left. YOu should have known better.
Uh…I think he said it was for the last 5 years.
No offense taken. The facetiousness was meant to imply that I was not in any way serious in my response. I did not mean that there were glaciers in Wisconsin my point was simply that Al Gore is not the be-all and end-all that people take him, and his film, to be.
I could have hoped that an “inveterate smart @$$” would have seen this, but apparently my smart-alleck part of my brain was tired that day or simply on vacation.
Geoff :mrgreen:
You asked for opinions… you are gonna get 'em.
My dad used to to tell me that “opinions are like bum-holes, everyone has one and they all stink!”
All I can say is that I wish the streams in eastern Nebraska were colder so I could do some trout fishing close to home!!!
I think you should post the conclusion you come up with. It will be a nice conclusion to everyone’s thoughts
Have you checked the accuracy of your thermometer lately?
Just a thought.
Rich
More shade?
Cooler rain days?
Less sun/cloudy days
More rain?
Less rain…higher percentage of spring water?
Temps taken earlier in the day?
Oh but a miniscule ‘rise’ in global temperatures is the fault of one thing. Funny how we can see the effect of temperature on a body of water can possibly be the work of many things but if a few tell us the globe is warming we:
the land around here has been sliced and diced…
Big farms have been bought out and cut into little…
slices of Heaven for outta state anglers/hunters…
Hence…
Less farming…
This is what i think caused the temperatures to lower.
This farm…or use to be farm…
was owned by Amish…
Was organic Pig Farm 10 years ago.
The new owner from Chicago vists ever 2 weeks in the summer to mow…
and never in the winter.
It is my favorite brook trout stream EVER now.
I say it is the cold water elves. They are mad because Al did not include them in his movie.
Dr Bob :lol:
Spinner,
I like your hypothesis. Back in the 70’s I was studying stream improvement/reclamation strategies (we don’t have cold-water species in KS but I was still interested). One of the best places for finding working strategies seemed to be WI. I remember that with good improvements, average stream temps fell. I would think that similar “improvements” in the watershed could lead to the same result assuming that changes in the watershed might lead to increases in ground water sources for the stream. Perhaps your “spring” creeks are becoming more “springy”
BW