by Paul Douglas | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog
Pete Schenck First Autumnal Freeze for Much of Minnesota Your begonias are in peril. In fact most plants (including ragweed – good riddance) will freeze their buds off the next couple of nights, statewide. Under clearing skies the mercury will dip into the 20s...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog
Lake Minnetonka at SunsetPaul Douglas Another Cool, Free Lawn Watering Today If anyone asks (doubtful) nearly 8 inches of snow fell on the MSP metro area one year ago today. Nothing like easing into winter. In stark contrast summer’s overheated afterglow has pushed...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 15, 2021 | Blog
Pete Schenck November: Pond Hockey or Boating? Live long enough and you’ll see almost everything. Our lake has an unwritten, unspoken contest to see who can be the last family with a dock and boat still in the water. A chilling badge of honor, I guess. At the rate...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 14, 2021 | Blog
Paul Douglas Reflecting On Another Supersized Summer The outlook calls for more cold fronts in the weeks to come. A temperature recession is as inevitable as gravity as longer nights brew up increasingly nippy airmasses to our north. That said, we just had another...
by Paul Douglas | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog
A Reminder why today’s rain is welcomeBrian Brettschneider 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...