by Paul Douglas | Jul 29, 2021 | Weather
This Summer 80s Are “The New Cool Front” I’m happiest when Mother Nature isn’t trying to murder me. To be alive is to live with risk. We have no active volcanoes nearby, no earthquake faults or rising seas to worry about. The biggest temperature swings are found near...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 28, 2021 | Weather
Heat Index Alert: Hottest Day of 2021? Based on predicted heat indices today will, in all probability, feel like the hottest day of the year. Unlike June, when we saw 90s (99F on June 5) with dry air, today’s upper 90s will be accompanied by a dew point in the 70s,...
by D.J. Kayser | Jul 26, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast On Monday we’ll be watching scattered showers and storms across the Southeast, with monsoonal storms in the Southwest. A frontal boundary will help spark storms – some strong to severe – in the upper Midwest. Storms will be...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 23, 2021 | Weather
Slight Severe Threat Today – 90s Return I have tried to connect the dots between a warming climate and increasingly extreme weather events for nearly 25 years. This summer has been a sobering Exhibit A. Drought in Minnesota and 40 percent of the USA at last...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 22, 2021 | Weather
Another Surge Of Heat Is Imminent It turns out 1-6 month climate models may do a better job predicting heat and drought than floods. Back in March and April I mentioned that a consensus of NOAA’s climate models were predicting a hotter, drier summer – a forecast...
by D.J. Kayser | Jul 21, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast On Wednesday, a frontal boundary snaking from the Northeast to the Northern Plains will help produce at least scattered showers and thunderstorms. Another frontal boundary across the Southeast and Gulf Coast with an area of low pressure...
