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Weather Forecasts Beyond 8-10 Days Have Little or No Skill – Fed Concerned About Climate Change
40 Degrees Will Feel Good This Weekend "I can't change my past or predict my future. But I can shape my present" wrote Armin Houman. I am celebrating my 37th winter in Minnesota. Coping skills include a steady diet of undershirts, socks in bed and earmuffs when the...
Talking Smack – Songbirds Predicting Hurricane Seasons – King Tide Coastal Flooding on the Increase
A Little Defensive About Minnesota Weather? You 'Betcha Meteorologists like to talk smack. "My hometown is the most difficult on Earth to forecast the weather!" Really San Diego? I went to school with The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel, who has filed 21,763 live shots...
Fast-Forward Winter: Taste of January First Half of Next Week
Getting a Jump on the Holidays. Why Not? I have the freedom to make confusing choices. Recently WCCO Radio co-host, Jordana Green, gave me a hard time for putting up our Christmas tree and blasting holiday tunes two weeks before Halloween. "Who does that?" she asked,...
Record Cold Brewing – Doppler Radar Analyzes Wildfires – Can Songbirds Predict Hurricane Seasons?
Record Cold Possible Early Next Week Everyone has weather stories. Some are more harrowing than others. At a fundraising dinner in Montgomery for Ney Nature Center, a couple came up and told me they had just moved back to Minnesota from the Bay Area. "We had apps on...
Warm West – Feels Like December Eastern 2/3rds of USA Next 1-2 Weeks
Snowy Coating? Call Out The National Guard It snows every winter. And going into every winter many of us are surprised, indignant and fearful. "Will I remember how to drive on snow?" It's less driving - more of a controlled skid, a little like snowboarding on 4...
Fire Conditions Ease Across California – “Hurricane Amnesia”
At Least We're Not Tracking Wildfires "Don't sweat the flurries". Using the Radio.com app I just listened to a radio traffic report from Los Angeles. The poor announcer was trying to route commuters away from raging fires. Smoke. Visibility. A wall of flames racing at...