by Paul Douglas | Apr 1, 2022 | Weather
Ice Out is Weeks AwayPaul Douglas Hurry Up April. We’re Counting On You Let me get this straight. March came in like a kimono dragon and went out like a chihuahua? I get my proverbs and animals mixed up. Nope. March came in like a belly-flop and went out like a...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 31, 2022 | Weather
Freezing rainPaul Douglas Stalled Spring? Please Blame La Nina A year ago ice was coming off area lakes and Minnesotans had an unmistakable spring in their step. After the coldest winter in 8 years we are all sitting by the phone, waiting for spring to ring us up and...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 30, 2022 | Weather
Risk of a glacier…Paul Douglas Spring Shuffles Into Town Next Week Cringe-worthy weather factoids you won’t find on the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce website. 1). Latest flurries on record in the metro area? May 28, 1965. [insert laugh track here] 2). 26.1” of...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 29, 2022 | Weather
NOAA GFS Temperatures for MSPweatherbell.com Reluctant Spring Ramps Up Again Next Week Should meteorologists be canceled when they say things we don’t want to hear? Are there times censorship of the 7-Day is appropriate? What are the limits of free speech in late...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 25, 2022 | Weather
Spring Fever on HoldPaul Douglas Chilly Bias Expected Into Early April Meteorologists at my weather consulting company, Praedictix, are all scratching their heads in unison this morning. It would appear that Old Man Winter has canceled spring, at least for the next...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 24, 2022 | Weather
More Slushy Encounters On The Way I’m not superstitious, but it would be bad luck (and bad form) to remove driveway stakes anytime soon. Or banish your heavy jacket to cold storage. That would be presumptuous and woefully premature. Tantalizing flashes of spring are...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 23, 2022 | Weather
Rainy Days and Tuesdays…Paul Douglas Whistling Through the Slush ”Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoeful of slush” wrote Doug Larson. Yep. Second-string shoes. Spring in Minnesota is always two steps forward – one (big) step back. Waves...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 22, 2022 | Weather
Paul Douglas Steadier, Heavier Rain Arrives Today A withering drought continues for much of the western USA, long-track tornadoes may grind across Louisiana and Mississippi later today and massive wildfires are burning from Texas to the Florida Panhandle. So remind me...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 17, 2022 | Weather
Paul Douglas More Early Hints of April Coming March is an atmospheric aberration, a cosmic jumble, an impossible juxtaposition of warm, cold, wet and windy. You can’t jam all 4 seasons into one month? Mother Nature: hold my beer. Exhibit A: On March 18, 1968 an...
by Paul Douglas | Mar 17, 2022 | Weather
Pete Schenck Unusually Mild and Quiet for Mid-March ”There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing wrote Alfred Wainwright in his 1973 book “Coast to Coast”. Sorry Al, I live in Minnesota and I beg to differ. There IS such a thing as lousy weather. I...
