by Paul Douglas | Apr 20, 2014 | Blog
* this past winter was the toughest since 1983-84 for the Twin Cities. Details on the Winter Misery Index below. Thawing Easter Eggs I just hope we can salvage a couple of quiet weeks between the slush and the tornadoes. Some faint approximation of this long-ridiculed...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 19, 2014 | Blog
Keeping It Official For the sake of ease, continuity and accuracy official NOAA and FAA weather measurements are taken at airports around the nation. The Twin Cities official weather observations are hourly snapshots at MSP International. But all weather, like...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog
Dazed & Amazed There was at least one Minnesotan excited to see snow on Wednesday. My youngest son took a few days off from Navy aviation, got off the plane and promptly tweeted photos of the snow to his friends in Pensacola, Florida. The excitement was palpable....
by Paul Douglas | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog
The Pollen Vortex Only in Minnesota can you be ankle-deep in slush, in a T-shirt, grilling. This “spring” is taking weather-whiplash to a new & outlandish extreme. I guess it could be worse. Residents of Washington D.C. just went from 80F to flurries,...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
Plowable Just North of MSP? Our tormented April limps on: brief, wondrous spasms of warmth, interrupted by extended spells of wind chill & fat flakes. By the time mid-April rolls around Minnesotans do NOT want to hear about “shovel-able snows”. With a...
