After record breaking high temps in October and the first half of November, things finally cooled off. From about opening day, temps both high and low have been consistently close to average and even a little below. This seems like the first real winter (average) that we have had in over 15 years. The past decade or so it seems we would get one or two cool days and then temps would jump back up for five days. Hope it continues.

Question - Has this resulted in better and more consistent deer movement or no change?

I know here in Clarke county - the first half of January- all but like 1-2 days has had a low in the 30s - not sure if that a record - but it’s not common - much colder than normal and we had a few extended cold snaps in December- good hunting weather

I made the same comment to a fellow hunter over the weekend that this December/January reminded me of winters in the 70's and 80's.

Yep. Definitely had winter this Dec/Jan. It’s been cooler on average than I remember for many years. We haven’t had any really cold weather, but it’s been consistently cold, not 68 today and 38 tomorrow.

This dam global warming is tough I tell ya

Def cooler/colder this year than the 2 previous (since i've started back gun deer hunting). But way fewer deer sightings this year than 2018 and 2019 seasons for us.

Still haven’t seen the ground spew up. The highs have been below normal but we haven’t dipped into the 20s much at all.

Much colder than average and my sightings have been up as well.

Was one hell of a frost this am

I haven’t noticed much difference in deer this year. Pretty constant.

We still got 6 more straight days in 30s and mostly low 30s and Saturday will be 29 - very cold for this area - basically first 20 days of January lows mostly in 30s - can’t remember when we had that

Yea it was hard Freeze here this past AM 257 - windshield still froze hard at 9 am this morn

Not only cooler, but much drier. Been a great winter, hope it gets even cooler.

Dang it’s been wet up here.

No kidding. You better put it in 4x4 before you leave any maintained road up here. Bad soggy.

Seen and killed more this year than in the previous. I definitely think the weather has helped me.

I went to bed last night expecting to wake up to semi clear skies and 26 degrees. Woke up to a dang 26 cloudy HARD freeze and dang snow/sleet/ice from 11-2. Wasn’t even forecasted! Like the weather folks woke up and said, “Crap y’all it’s about to snow!” Then the sun came out after 3 until 5 and we got the dangdest ice fog you ever seen. It’s slicking over everything. I about died on my front steps a few minutes ago.

A cooler winter,finally, was much needed. Especially for the timber folks

I have seen fewer deer, and almost no bucks in about the same number of hunts this year as last.
Feels more like hunting weather, but has not resulted in better deer movement where I hunt.

Too hot. I'm ready for it to cool down a bit.

Dang right! It’s burning up! I keep my air conditioner on when it’s 22 degrees.