by Paul Douglas | Apr 5, 2014 | Blog
Turning of the Wheel This is a test. This is only a test. Can you keep your sense of humor, a sunny sense of long-range optimism, while knee-deep in slush – on the 5th day of April? I’m developing a severe case of weather-amnesia, but a reader reminds me...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog
Snowmageddon Averted? I have vivid memories of my first April here, back in 1983. On April 14, 1983 13.6 inches of snow DELIGHTED residents of the Twin Cities. A cool foot of snow blanketing green lawns and dazed robins? Not. Good. I wondered what I had gotten myself...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 2, 2014 | Blog
How ’bout those Twins! I’m starting to wonder out loud if it’s too late to find a sports gig in town. Something a little less controversial than babbling about Minnesota’s increasingly manic weather. Just when I thought I’d seen...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 1, 2014 | Blog
Blizz-nado? I’d like to lock Mother Nature in my basement and throw away the key. March came in like a polar bear and went out like a (rabid) mountain lion, with blizzard conditions over the Red River Valley yesterday, but that wasn’t the most unusual...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog
Wintry Perspective By any objective measure meteorological winter was extraordinary. It was the 9th coldest for the Twin Cities, but NOAA NCDC reports the 6th coldest winter for Minnesota, 5th coldest for Wisconsin. 18 mornings with Windchill Advisories, the most...
