by Paul Douglas | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog
Tornado Prediction a Mix of Art and Science Try to live a life of diminishing regrets. I’d rather have a dozen people come up and accuse me of “hyping the weather” than one person saying “where were you when the tornado touched down?”...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 10, 2019 | Blog
Meteorologists Are Drowning in Weather Models Weather forecasting is an odd mix of peer-reviewed science, gut feel and fervent prayer. Our forecasts rely on a bedrock, a foundation, of fluid dynamics captured by weather models. The challenge: what model to believe and...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog
Why Does The Weekend Forecast Keep Changing? On Tuesday the weekend forecast looks so promising: chirping birds, blue sky, an inviting breeze. But by Friday the outlook has deteriorated into something out of the Book of Revelations. Biblical floods, beachball size...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog
Excuse Me While I Remove My Sport Coat Recently a friendly stranger asked if I missed working in television. I had to think about that one. I still show up monthly on TPT Almanac (Channel 2 in the Twin Cities). Yes, I can use bigger words on public television. The...
by Paul Douglas | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog
Why Do We Talk About the “Dog Days”? Welcome to the proverbial Dog Days of Summer. The origin of the expression has very little to do with your favorite, furry, four-legged friend. Ancient Greeks noticed the hottest weather of the year often coincided with...
