by Paul Douglas | Aug 15, 2019 | Weather
It Gets Hot Here. Just Not Venus-Hot This might be a good time to call friends in the southern USA. You know, the ones who text you in January with the current temperature in Scottsdale and Naples? Exhibit A: the heat index in Mississippi and Alabama spiked as high as...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 14, 2019 | Weather
Tornado Prediction a Mix of Art and Science Try to live a life of diminishing regrets. I’d rather have a dozen people come up and accuse me of “hyping the weather” than one person saying “where were you when the tornado touched down?”...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 10, 2019 | Weather
Meteorologists Are Drowning in Weather Models Weather forecasting is an odd mix of peer-reviewed science, gut feel and fervent prayer. Our forecasts rely on a bedrock, a foundation, of fluid dynamics captured by weather models. The challenge: what model to believe and...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 9, 2019 | Weather
Why Does The Weekend Forecast Keep Changing? On Tuesday the weekend forecast looks so promising: chirping birds, blue sky, an inviting breeze. But by Friday the outlook has deteriorated into something out of the Book of Revelations. Biblical floods, beachball size...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 8, 2019 | Weather
Excuse Me While I Remove My Sport Coat Recently a friendly stranger asked if I missed working in television. I had to think about that one. I still show up monthly on TPT Almanac (Channel 2 in the Twin Cities). Yes, I can use bigger words on public television. The...
