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 | May 18, 2022 | Weather
NOAA NHC Dueling Weather Forecasts Can Be Confusing Why do weather forecasts change over time, and why do different meteorologists predict different things? Good question. Outlooks change as new data arrives from a variety of sources, including satellites, weather...
by Paul Douglas | May 12, 2022 | Weather
A busy night staring at the DopplerPaul Douglas Deciphering The Evening Weather Report Meteorologists throw around strange terminology during peak severe storm season. Where to begin? “Hook echoes?” On radar, spinning, tornadic storms often look like hooks, or the...
by Paul Douglas | May 7, 2022 | Weather
Paul Douglas Today Is The Day We’ve Been Waiting For If only it could stay like THIS into September. We don’t yet have technology to do that and never will, by the way. Endure the bad, soak up the good. We are all bewildered spectators. Encourage your favorite mom to...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 13, 2021 | Weather
The Profound Perils of Predicting Weather You can only learn so much out of a book. Exhibit A: predicting the weather. Meteorologists study calculus, physics and chemistry, but at the end of the day we learn by making mistakes. Lot’s of mistakes. It’s a painful (and...
