by Paul Douglas | Oct 14, 2020 | Weather
Frost, Freeze and Flakes? Here We Go “Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d have frozen to death” wrote Mark Twain. I’m not suprised or offended temperatures are tumbling. Considering the sun is as high in the sky today as it...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 14, 2020 | Weather
Adaptability Is A Key 2020 Coping Skill “Man plans, God laughs” a Yiddish proverb insists. Yep. Making plans is so 2019. Plan B? More like Plan Z. All of us are scrambling, improvising – doing what we can to keep things going. As an entrepreneur...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 13, 2020 | Weather
80s Were Nice, Now Cue the Cold Fronts All weather, like politics, is local. What will happen in my yard, my neighborhood, my hometown? With major media 7-Day Outlooks are tailored for large metropolitan areas, where most people live. It’s not fair, but this is...
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...
