by Paul Douglas | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog
Wednesday Slush – Turning the Corner Next Week True confession: I like snow. I prefer my snow in the winter. By late spring my lust for fresh powder begins to wane. When the seasons bog down, when patterns stall, I’m just as anxious as the next guy. Only...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 17, 2018 | Blog
Slow Meltdown – A Wednesday Brush with Slush With apologies to Bill Shakespeare, now is the (spring) of our discontent. We’ve gone from the merely dreadful to the meteorologically-ridiculous. Snowiest April (26 inches and counting), and the 10th snowiest...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 14, 2018 | Blog
Minnesota (Still) Has Weather Bragging Rights for America T.S. Eliot lamented that “April is the cruelest month”. He may have been overly optimistic. The weather is the weather; we just get in the way. We make plans and then shake our fists at the sky when...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog
We Are All Going To Need Some Weather Therapy Jordana Green and I have a segment on WCCO Radio every weekday afternoon at 4:20 PM called “Weather Therapy”, where I attempt to go beyond the 7-Day and delve into the whats and whys; answering questions,...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
The (Freakishly) Snowy April of 2018 Continues Any lingering, nagging doubt you live in the Super Bowl of Weather will be erased by Saturday, when a band of 6-12 inches sets up near (or over) the Twin Cities. 10.3 inches of snow has already piled up this month...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
Helpless Captives in a Land That Spring Forgot Welcome to a “Land That Spring Forgot”. This is starting to feel like bad reality television; an experiment gone awry. Instead of daffodils and chirping robins, let’s keep the perpetual snow globe going...