by Paul Douglas | Oct 9, 2020 | Weather
Growing Drought Here While “Delta” Threatens It’s 2020 so I’ll ask a question with no apparent answer. “Can the weather ever be too nice?” September was glorious and this week has been a balm for the senses. Low 80s today? But a...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 8, 2020 | Weather
Minnesota Has Escaped 2020’s Worst Disasters Don’t let anyone living in Louisiana ever give you a hard time about Minnesota weather. Hurricane Delta will be the 6th tropical system in 2020 to impact Louisiana, still recovering from Hurricane Laura’s...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 6, 2020 | Weather
Hurricane Delta Threatens Gulf Coast “Paul, has a hurricane named after the Greek alphabet ever been retired?” According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that has never happened – and no, any Greek name would be reused in the future....
by WorkBlog | Oct 6, 2020 | Weather
October Sky, it is not just the 1999 movie drama starring a then 19-year-old Jake Jake Gyllenhaal. It is also what our eyes will be looking up to for the next like three weeks or so. And Mars has bright plans for us this October. I for one will take advantage and will...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 5, 2020 | Weather
Fine Fall Weather Into The Weekend “October was always the least dependable of months, full of ghosts and shadows” wrote Canadian novelist Joy Fielding. True, October can be a dark, turbulent, windblown month, but if you’re not a fan of freezes and...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 1, 2020 | Weather
October: A Month of Manic Meteorology Welcome to a fickle month of full-bodied weather. October has brought everything from 90s to flooding rains, rare tornadoes and wild winds. Frozen water, too. Average Twin Cities snowfall this month is .6 inches. We rarely see...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 1, 2020 | Weather
Warming Trend Likely Into Mid-October “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace” said the Dalai Lama. I vaguely remember inner peace. Someone freeze me like a popsicle and thaw me out in 2022. I achieved some level of inner peace gazing...
by Paul Douglas | Sep 30, 2020 | Weather
A Raw Weekend But Weather Mellows Next Week Weather is a metaphor for life: an unpredictable mash-up of good and bad, with only the illusion of control. In my muddled mind I consider the blustery showers rushing past my window cosmic payback for last week’s 80s....
by Paul Douglas | Sep 29, 2020 | Weather
November-ish This Week, Septemberlike Next Week Winston Churchill said “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give”. I’m trying to call at least one friend, family member or colleague every day, to check in and say hi – see...
by Paul Douglas | Sep 25, 2020 | Weather
NOAA Takes Steps To Catch Up to ECMWF For the record, I’d like American Exceptionalism to apply to weather model accuracy. My take: The National Weather Service is the best on the planet, but in recent years the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Weather...
