by Paul Douglas | Jun 30, 2021 | Weather
Heating Up For 4th of July Festivities I’m seeing things on my weather maps I’ve never witnessed before and I’m fairly sure that’s not a good thing. Like an extraordinary “4-Sigma” heat wave for the Pacific Northwest, 4 standard deviations from the mean, or an event...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 29, 2021 | Weather
90s Return In Time For 4th of July Weekend Minnesotans earn their summers and this year we are getting an extra serving of heat and sunshine. “Peak Summer” for me falls between the Summer Solstice and the 4th of July, when there’s still a twinkle of twilight on the...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 11, 2021 | Weather
Most 95 Degree Days So Early in Season I’m happiest when Mother Nature isn’t trying to murder me. This is the atmosphere’s attempt at balance: extreme school-closing cold can, in fact, be followed by extreme school-closing heat. Welcome to the most 95-degree days ever...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 9, 2021 | Weather
Research: Warm Nighttime Temperatures Pose Greatest Risk It’s not as viscerally terrifying as a tornado, hurricane or flood, but excessive heat is a bigger killer than all three. In the last 6 decades the number of annual heat waves in 50 US cities has, on average,...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 8, 2021 | Weather
Welcome to the Dog Days of June ”It’s so hot your clothes iron themselves.” “Wait, it’s so hot they installed a fan in the debt ceiling!” True story. From a Polar Vortex in February to the Vegas Vortex in June, all signs point to an unusually hot and dry summer. This...
