by Paul Douglas | Oct 30, 2020 | Weather
No More Weather Fatigue Anytime Soon 2020 is the year of chronic fatigue. Covid-fatigue. Election-fatigue. Weather-fatigue. At least we have boasting rights. Assuming no more snow falls by Saturday night (hey, it’s 2020 – anything is possible). October...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 29, 2020 | Weather
A Stretch of Indian Summer Next Week “Lord I was born a ramblin’ man” sang the Allman Brothers. I must have been an 18-wheel truck driver in a previous life, because I love a good road trip. I just got back from a 10-day, 4200 mile trip to the east...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 28, 2020 | Weather
Nothing to Fear In Today’s Weather Report “The wise man in a storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unless you’ve been living in a cave (where can I sign up?) you realize the...
by WorkBlog | Oct 21, 2020 | Weather
The August Iowa derecho is now the costliest thunderstorm in history. The thunderstorm ‘decided’ it wanted to evolve to take the form of what is known as a derecho as we woke in the mid-morning hours of Monday, August 10th. We are re-writing weather...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 14, 2020 | Weather
Frost, Freeze and Flakes? Here We Go “Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d have frozen to death” wrote Mark Twain. I’m not suprised or offended temperatures are tumbling. Considering the sun is as high in the sky today as it...