by D.J. Kayser | Aug 14, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast A frontal boundary positioned from the Northeast to the central U.S. will produce showers and thunderstorms, some of which could be strong. The other story we’ll continue to track is Fred, which will move across the Florida Keys on Saturday....
by Paul Douglas | Aug 11, 2021 | Weather
Scientists React To Latest IPCC Report Every IPCC climate report becomes a little more dire with time as scientists draw a straight line from a doubling of planet-warming greenhouse gases since 1850 to an increase in weather extremes. During a WCCO Radio interview...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 6, 2021 | Weather
Driest Meteorological Summer, To Date, Since 1982 I’m enjoying my time here in Bakersfield, California, between the heat, drought, smoke and occasional wildfires”. [checks notes]. Wait, I recall living in Minnesota, which has a vast constellation of lakes. Water...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 5, 2021 | Weather
Topsoil MoistureUSDA An “Opportunity” For Showers Into Sunday I keep a NOAA Weather Radio under my bed (cheapest form of life insurance around). I think it’s gone off once all summer. Yes, tornadoes are rare during a drought – a small, silver lining. There...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 4, 2021 | Weather
Paul Douglas Smoke Diminishes As Shower Chance Increases I’ve been blasting Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” on my Kenwood KR-9050 stereo receiver, and my neighbors are not amused. Then again, I have the freedom to make poor decisions. What a strange and wondrous...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 3, 2021 | Weather
Paul Douglas Smoke, Heat & Drought? Welcome to Fresno! A friend living in Los Angeles told me that Californians don’t trust air they can’t see. I get it now. Remind me to never take a baby blue sky for granted again. Sadly, what happens in Ontario and Manitoba...
by D.J. Kayser | Aug 2, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast On Monday, a slow-moving/stalled boundary from the Southern Plains to the Southeast will produce showers and storms. An area of low pressure in New England will produce showers and storms before moving off to the east during the day. We are...
by D.J. Kayser | Jul 31, 2021 | Weather
National Weather Forecast We’ll be tracking numerous areas of showers and storms as we go through Saturday, with the driest portions of the nation along the West Coast, in the Northern Plains, around the Ark-La-Tex, and into the Northeast. Monsoonal showers and storms...
by Paul Douglas | Jul 30, 2021 | Weather
Forecast Calls For Unpredictable Smoke Plumes It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. It’s not the virus, it’s the Canadian wildfire smoke. A few of us are wearing masks (indoors) at our Brainerd Lakes cabin, after air quality fell to hazardous levels yesterday. The EPA...
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...
