by Paul Douglas | Oct 21, 2021 | Weather
First Autumnal Freeze for Much of Minnesota Your begonias are in peril. In fact most plants (including ragweed – good riddance) will freeze their buds off the next couple of nights, statewide. Under clearing skies the mercury will dip into the 20s with a hard...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 20, 2021 | Weather
Another Cool, Free Lawn Watering Today If anyone asks (doubtful) nearly 8 inches of snow fell on the MSP metro area one year ago today. Nothing like easing into winter. In stark contrast summer’s overheated afterglow has pushed deep into October this year, treating...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 15, 2021 | Weather
November: Pond Hockey or Boating? Live long enough and you’ll see almost everything. Our lake has an unwritten, unspoken contest to see who can be the last family with a dock and boat still in the water. A chilling badge of honor, I guess. At the rate we’re going I...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 14, 2021 | Weather
Reflecting On Another Supersized Summer The outlook calls for more cold fronts in the weeks to come. A temperature recession is as inevitable as gravity as longer nights brew up increasingly nippy airmasses to our north. That said, we just had another super-sized...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 13, 2021 | Weather
The Profound Perils of Predicting Weather You can only learn so much out of a book. Exhibit A: predicting the weather. Meteorologists study calculus, physics and chemistry, but at the end of the day we learn by making mistakes. Lot’s of mistakes. It’s a painful (and...
