by Paul Douglas | Dec 23, 2020 | Weather
Latest Watches and WarningsPraedictix and AerisWeather Free Snowstorm Just In Time For Christmas ”Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.” I know commutes have been a breeze, but think about it. A Minnesota Christmas without snow is a little like peanut butter without...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 22, 2020 | Weather
Don’t Give Up On That White Christmas ”Like planting daffodils during a Category 5 hurricane”. That’s how Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm described his life during a call last week. We’ve been living through a Category 5 viral hurricane for 11...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 18, 2020 | Weather
Stay off metro icePaul Douglas We May Get That White Christmas After All Turns out Mother Nature is a bit of a drama queen. After teasing winter weather lovers with the snowiest Minnesota October on record, winter has been playing hard to get in recent weeks. My...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 17, 2020 | Weather
White Christmas Comes Down To The Wire ”Grandpa, tell me again about a time when we had white Christmases in Minnesota? And… what’s a snow plow?” Conversations I hope to never have. Odds are Canada won’t run out of cold fronts – and many winters will be...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 16, 2020 | Weather
Snowfall Potential Next 36 Hours NOAA and AerisWeather No Winning Snowfall Lotto Anytime Soon Minnesota won’t win the Snow Lotto anytime soon. That distinction goes to Pennsylvania, where up to 30 inches may pile up by Thursday. Over a foot of snow may plaster New...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 15, 2020 | Weather
Unsafe icePaul Douglas Smaller Snow Events Loom Larger Now ”Paul, back in my day we called an inch or two of snow FLURRIES!” I’ve seen variations of that theme over the years and I can’t disagree. The paradox: as winters shrink, Decembers warm, snowfall becomes more...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 11, 2020 | Weather
Santa Not Intimidated By A Mild December ”I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” wrote Charles Dickens in “A Christmas Carol”. Neither Hanukah nor Christmas has been cancelled, but a blizzard of infection will make this a holiday season...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 10, 2020 | Weather
Mid-December or early October?Paul Douglas What a Wondrously Troubling December Go with the flow, roll with the punches. Someone should set that to music in 2020. My December gardening is not going well. I keep watering the hydrangea, but so far no sprouts. Mow the...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 8, 2020 | Weather
Tracking Inversions, Not Snowstorms Truth be told, I have an aversion to inversions. They annoy meteorologists and anyone else hoping to glimpse a little blue sky. Normally temperatures cool with altitude, but when the sun is low in the sky, feeble and ineffective,...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 4, 2020 | Weather
Just Over 3 Weeks Until Daylight Increases “Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for foregiveness, or else forgiving another” wrote Jean Paul Richter in the 18th century. As we head into the darkest months of winter and the pandemic I’m...
