by Paul Douglas | Apr 7, 2014 | Blog
Anticipation Cue Carly Simon (but hold the ketchup). The sound track works for tired neighbors emerging from hibernation, dazed parents pushing dusty strollers over nagging piles of dirty snow, cyclists and runners weaving around pond-size puddles. “I love this...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 6, 2014 | Blog
Risk of Spring Curious new words are entering our weather lexicon, like “shower”, “T-storm” & “mild”. Phrases that simply don’t compute, after barely surviving a brutal, Pioneer Winter. Like a therapist handing out free...
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...