by Paul Douglas | Aug 6, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Reports of Grapefruit Size Hail Monday Weather is random. In spite of sophisticated weather simulations running on some of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet – a constellation of weather satellites updating every 5 minutes with 1 km resolution...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 31, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Good News: No Hurricanes Anytime Soon August beckons, a month of (slightly) cooler fronts and swirling, Texas-size storms. Rumor has it the first hurricane “names” came from Navy pilots in the Pacific. The first aviators to spot a tropical system could...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 17, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Our Persistent Wet Bias Continues Nearly 5 inches of rain soaked the Twin Cities in the first half of July, making it the 7th wettest start to any July on record. (Note: these statistics were before Tuesday evening’s torrential thunderstorms). We’re up to...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 16, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
Heavy Thunderstorms – Slight Flash Flood Risk It may be politically expedient to complain about heat and humidity, but count me out of that rant-fest. We spend – what – half the year shivering, so I’m not about to complain about a few hot...
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...
