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...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 15, 2014 | Blog
Over the Horizon There’s a better than 50/50 shot that El Nino is returning. A stain of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean is gaining momentum, spreading east, and it may flavor our weather here in Minnesota by the latter half of 2014. Every El Nino is...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 14, 2014 | Blog
A Fine Whine Amazingly, meteorologists are people too. Well, on a good day. We get just as annoyed with lousy weather as everyone else, even though it offers some (perverse) level of job security. Should we be clinical and unemotional? “Just the facts...
