Unlike humans, whitetails and other wild creatures have built-in mechanisms to alert them of impending weather changes. Whitetails can detect when barometric pressure is falling, even if the sky is clear. They know when conditions are changing and their feeding habits can increase dramatically prior to the arrival of bad weather and after a front has passed.
Through the years I’ve observed that whitetails typically move more when the barometer is moving, either up or down, than when it is steady. During this time, you’ll usually find periods of high humidity with fog, haze, rain or wet snow making up the weather system. When this happens, whitetails
