Aftermath of the 65 MPH Blizzard of 2020

Aftermath of the 65 MPH Blizzard of 2020

Zoom Radar and Star Tribune The Great Pre-Christmas White-Out of 2020 Well that was fun, in an existential-threat kind of way. Every storm is uniquely and annoyingly different. They are never identical. On a good week we can give 2-5 days notice of a major weather...
Don’t Give Up On That White Christmas Concept Yet

Don’t Give Up On That White Christmas Concept Yet

  Don’t Give Up On That White Christmas ”Like planting daffodils during a Category 5 hurricane”. That’s how Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm described his life during a call last week. We’ve been living through a Category 5 viral hurricane for 11...
Odds of a White (Arctic) Christmas Increase

Odds of a White (Arctic) Christmas Increase

Stay off metro icePaul Douglas We May Get That White Christmas After All Turns out Mother Nature is a bit of a drama queen. After teasing winter weather lovers with the snowiest Minnesota October on record, winter has been playing hard to get in recent weeks. My...
White Christmas Comes Right Down to the Wire This Year

White Christmas Comes Right Down to the Wire This Year

  White Christmas Comes Down To The Wire ”Grandpa, tell me again about a time when we had white Christmases in Minnesota? And… what’s a snow plow?” Conversations I hope to never have. Odds are Canada won’t run out of cold fronts – and many winters...