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      Your success and safety are equally important parts of every hunting and fishing trip.

      Weather plays several roles in any excursion into the outdoors, especially a hunting or fishing trip. The most important role weather plays in your activity is in your personal safety. For example, freezing rain and high winds may add an unacceptable amount of risk to your hunt causing you to postpone or delay the activity. If you choose to go ahead with the hunt you may minimize your risk by hunting from a ground blind in a sheltered area, rather than an exposed tree stand. Checking the weather forecast allows you to prepare and dress properly and comfortably. It is impossible to experience the fun and excitement of hunting or fishing if you are miserably cold and wet, especially when it’s all avoidable. In some instances being cold and wet can lead to dangerous hypothermia which becomes more of a safety issue than one of comfort. Another and perhaps the most complicated role that forecast weather can play is in helping you anticipate the movement of the game you are pursuing. Have you noticed how deer or even game birds feed ravenously hours before a winter storm? Or after a couple of days of rain how animals seem to move as soon as the skies clear regardless of the time of day? Understanding the type of game or fish you are pursuing, their habits, habitat, plus the upcoming weather will help make your hunting or fishing trips more successful.

      The forecast weather page of Weather and Wildlife contains links to certain weather information pages within the National Weather Service’s site. These links provide specific forecast weather maps, imagery and tools to further plan your hunting and fishing trip.  With most of the charts and maps, you have the ability to click on your specific state or region to obtain more detailed local weather information.  NWS charts and maps allow you to select the time frame that you view the data.  On the daily view you can review forecast data for every four hour period starting today and for the next two days.  For longer range planning you can select the weekly view to see the same data for the next week.  Other NWS desktop weather information such as Wave Height and Rivers are simply not available from any other weather agency.