by Paul Douglas | Oct 1, 2021 | Weather
Beware of Extended Winter Outlooks Beware of gloom and doom winter forecasts. They’re rarely right. The science just isn’t there. It’s the rough equivalent of predicting where the stock market (or pandemic) will be in February. Nope. Keep in mind, only 1 in 4...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 30, 2021 | Weather
Heating Up For 4th of July Festivities I’m seeing things on my weather maps I’ve never witnessed before and I’m fairly sure that’s not a good thing. Like an extraordinary “4-Sigma” heat wave for the Pacific Northwest, 4 standard deviations from the mean, or an event...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 29, 2021 | Weather
90s Return In Time For 4th of July Weekend Minnesotans earn their summers and this year we are getting an extra serving of heat and sunshine. “Peak Summer” for me falls between the Summer Solstice and the 4th of July, when there’s still a twinkle of twilight on the...
by Paul Douglas | Jun 8, 2021 | Weather
Welcome to the Dog Days of June ”It’s so hot your clothes iron themselves.” “Wait, it’s so hot they installed a fan in the debt ceiling!” True story. From a Polar Vortex in February to the Vegas Vortex in June, all signs point to an unusually hot and dry summer. This...
by Paul Douglas | May 13, 2021 | Weather
Better Than Average Fishing Opener Weather ”Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it” wrote Harry Middleton. Sorry Harry, it is an escape and that’s OK. A chance to put down your phone and give your brain a break sounds good to me. Even...
