by Paul Douglas | May 25, 2022 | Weather
A Few Rounds of Holiday Weekend Thunder I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a ceraunophile. Before you call the authorities, a ceraunophile is someone who loves thunderstorms. What a geek, I know. For the record I can live without the crazy supercell thunderstorms that...
by Paul Douglas | May 20, 2022 | Weather
Paul Douglas Minnesota: Land of Abundant Fresh Water Well, the drought is over. We have that going for us this year, with water levels on many area lakes up 1-2 feet since mid-March, and ample soil moisture for farmers. Now if it can only stay dry enough for them to...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 24, 2021 | Weather
Putting a Few Dents In Our Drought Mother Nature is extra-loopy this summer. Now that it’s late August the pattern looks like something I’d expect to see in early June: waves of warm fronts lapping north, each one accompanied by an outbreak of mostly nocturnal...