by Paul Douglas | Dec 14, 2021 | Weather
Marginal Severe T-storm Risk Wednesday My Winter Coping Skills: 1). Proper clothing. 2). “Yak Trax” (chains that slip over your boots to avoid sliding down the hill). 3). AWD (not optional at this latitude). 4). At least one warm weather getaway in February, if...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 10, 2021 | Weather
First Plowable Snow for MSP Metro We have a segment on our WCCO Radio show called “weather therapy”, which seems appropriate today. I am a meteorologist and also a part time pseudo- psychologist. “It’s ‘gonna be fine!” “It’s just frozen water!” “It’ll melt!” The first...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 9, 2021 | Weather
ECMWF Guidance Through Saturday Eveningweatherbell.com Plowable Snow Friday – 50s Next Week? Talk about weird weather gyrations. Monday morning we woke up to a wind chill of -16F in the metro. Models are hinting at 50s next week, a week before the Winter...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 7, 2021 | Weather
Icy Coating Today – A Real Storm Friday? Quite a disconnect: waking up to a windchill of -13F Monday morning with whitecaps on area lakes. Huh? Our on-again, off-again winter is on again. This week will be a subtle (yet blunt) reminder that a mild autumn (4th...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 3, 2021 | Weather
An Antidote For The Dark Days of December It’s not the heat – it’s the humidity. And it’s not the cold – it’s the dark. I get it. Many of us go into a funk this time of year, and at least 1 in 10 of us suffer from “Seasonal Affective Disorder”, a hormonal...
