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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5538981" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I've not linked my trail-camera data to weather conditions yet, but I have linked weather to hunter observations. And interestingly, there is no link that is very strong. It is primarily just trends in data, not absolutes. I don't have this year's observation and weather data run through my programs yet, but from all the previous years, the general trend is cooler is better temperature-wise (within reason - buck sightings drop off dramatically below about 15 degrees). And this trend is just a trend. Some warm days have been great days. Some cold days complete busts. But the trend is, for both morning and evening hunts, is cooler lows and cooler highs produce about twice the sighting rates as the warmest lows and highs. As for wind, the lighter the better. East winds produce the highest buck observations.</p><p></p><p>The moon is an odd one. I look at moon data a little differently than most. I've always assumed, that if the moon has an influence, it is because of the amount of light it produces at night. So I evaluate the moon by the percent of the surface that is illuminated, which is a backhanded way of looking how much light it produces. I also look at these percentages based on whether the moon is waxing or waning. As I've been able to add more and more data over the years, moon conditions (illumination and wax/waning) have basically all washed out, with one exception. There is a lull in hunter observations of bucks <strong>when the moon is waxing</strong> (getting more full) from about 50% illuminated up to 99% illuminated. But this lull is only a drop in sighting rates of about 20%. However, this lull has proven very persistent over the years, and I don't know why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5538981, member: 17"] I've not linked my trail-camera data to weather conditions yet, but I have linked weather to hunter observations. And interestingly, there is no link that is very strong. It is primarily just trends in data, not absolutes. I don't have this year's observation and weather data run through my programs yet, but from all the previous years, the general trend is cooler is better temperature-wise (within reason - buck sightings drop off dramatically below about 15 degrees). And this trend is just a trend. Some warm days have been great days. Some cold days complete busts. But the trend is, for both morning and evening hunts, is cooler lows and cooler highs produce about twice the sighting rates as the warmest lows and highs. As for wind, the lighter the better. East winds produce the highest buck observations. The moon is an odd one. I look at moon data a little differently than most. I've always assumed, that if the moon has an influence, it is because of the amount of light it produces at night. So I evaluate the moon by the percent of the surface that is illuminated, which is a backhanded way of looking how much light it produces. I also look at these percentages based on whether the moon is waxing or waning. As I've been able to add more and more data over the years, moon conditions (illumination and wax/waning) have basically all washed out, with one exception. There is a lull in hunter observations of bucks [B]when the moon is waxing[/B] (getting more full) from about 50% illuminated up to 99% illuminated. But this lull is only a drop in sighting rates of about 20%. However, this lull has proven very persistent over the years, and I don't know why. [/QUOTE]
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