by Paul Douglas | Jul 13, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Hottest Weather of Summer Next Week? Unlike tornadoes, which just want to post selfies posted to Instagram and scare the you-know-what out of people, hurricanes serve a purpose. They are nature’s automatic pressure relief valves, transporting excess heat and...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 12, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Biggest Hurricane Killer Is Now Inland Flooding Welcome to the 9th wettest start of any year since 1895 in the Twin Cities, according to National Weather Service data. It’s an era of all or nothing, “weather whiplash”. Fields in southern Minnesota...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 11, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Even the Weather People Get Rained Out For the record, Mother Nature doesn’t play favorites. Nobody gets a break. Yesterday was our annual Praedictix/AerisWeather company picnic, with grilling and (adult) beverages at a local park. Didn’t quite work out...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 10, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Wet Rut Continues – Growing Risk of “Barry” “If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane” wrote John Green in “Looking for Alaska”. Possibly my favorite weather quote ever. The odds of a hurricane in the Gulf of...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 9, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Beware of Rapid Hurricane Intensification What keeps me up at night? Plenty. But weather amnesia is near the top of the list. How quickly we forget the lessons of history – and that applies to natural disasters. Hurricane Michael struck the Florida Panhandle as...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 4, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Tracking a Few Atmospheric Firecrackers “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by...
