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...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 3, 2019 | Paul Douglas, Weather
A Slightly Above-Average 4th of July? “Paul, what about the 4th of July?” Well, this year it’ll fall on a Thursday. Next question. Remember Murphy’s Third Law: storms, given a choice, prefer to come on major holidays. It’s true. The next...
