by Paul Douglas | Apr 13, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Getting Better – Because It Has To Get Better Here in the Land of 10,000 Weather Sorrows we earn our springs. That was the case in 2018 (26 inches of snow that April) and that’s the case in 2019. For the record, I’m just a bewildered spectator and...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 12, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Welcome To The Major Leagues of Wild Weather Well, at least our weather is rarely dull. We have that going for us. In the Pantheon of Meteorology, Minnesota is the Major Leagues. Exhibit A: Yesterday a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was in effect for Renville County, at...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 11, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Wind, Ice and Snow Make For Treacherous Thursday Here in the Land of 10,000 Weather Apologies, spring is more theory than reality. 70 degrees one day, a full-blown blizzard with horizontal snow the next? Population-thinning weather. Last night’s burst of snow...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 10, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Blizzard West of MSP. “Sleet Sandwich” for Metro Predicting a snowstorm is a maddening game of three-dimensional chess. Snow requires sub-freezing temperatures in the lowest 1-2 miles of the atmosphere. Even a thin layer of milder air can spark a...
by Paul Douglas | Apr 9, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Why Minnesota Springs Are An Acquired Taste They say lightning never strikes the same place twice? They would be wrong. My blood pressure is just now receding after the 15.7 inches of snow that plastered the MSP metro April 13-15, 2018. “A fluke, an cosmic...
