by Paul Douglas | Dec 15, 2021 | Weather
Slight Severe T-storm Risk Later Today I’m having a mild out-of-body meteorological experience. There is snow on the ground and you’re telling me there’s a slight risk of tornadoes later today? What the…Doppler? Last Friday’s historic (horrific) December tornado...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 14, 2021 | Weather
Marginal Severe T-storm Risk Wednesday My Winter Coping Skills: 1). Proper clothing. 2). “Yak Trax” (chains that slip over your boots to avoid sliding down the hill). 3). AWD (not optional at this latitude). 4). At least one warm weather getaway in February, if...
by D.J. Kayser | Dec 13, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast The highest concentration of precipitation on Monday will be out west with moisture continuing to stream into the region causing rain and higher elevation snow. A few showers will be possible in portions of the Deep South, with a few storms...
by D.J. Kayser | Dec 12, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast The main weather story on Saturday will be frontal boundaries and an atmospheric river impacting the west coast, bringing heavy rain and snow to the region. The cold front that has been marching east across the country through the end of the...
by D.J. Kayser | Dec 11, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast The system responsible for heavy snow in the upper Midwest Friday will continue to move eastward Saturday, with rain/snow/ice across the Great Lakes and into New England, and strong storms from the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic into the Deep...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 10, 2021 | Weather
First Plowable Snow for MSP Metro We have a segment on our WCCO Radio show called “weather therapy”, which seems appropriate today. I am a meteorologist and also a part time pseudo- psychologist. “It’s ‘gonna be fine!” “It’s just frozen water!” “It’ll melt!” The first...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 9, 2021 | Weather
ECMWF Guidance Through Saturday Eveningweatherbell.com Plowable Snow Friday – 50s Next Week? Talk about weird weather gyrations. Monday morning we woke up to a wind chill of -16F in the metro. Models are hinting at 50s next week, a week before the Winter...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 7, 2021 | Weather
Icy Coating Today – A Real Storm Friday? Quite a disconnect: waking up to a windchill of -13F Monday morning with whitecaps on area lakes. Huh? Our on-again, off-again winter is on again. This week will be a subtle (yet blunt) reminder that a mild autumn (4th...
by D.J. Kayser | Dec 4, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast On Saturday, a storm in the northwest will start to move east, spreading snow and rain across the region during the day and into the upper Midwest Saturday Night. A few storms will be possible in the lower Mississippi River Saturday. A low in...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 3, 2021 | Weather
An Antidote For The Dark Days of December It’s not the heat – it’s the humidity. And it’s not the cold – it’s the dark. I get it. Many of us go into a funk this time of year, and at least 1 in 10 of us suffer from “Seasonal Affective Disorder”, a hormonal...
