Bob Collins
For several years now, New England has beaten Minnesota when it comes to snow.
We can’t even make fun of them anymore, which makes winters here all the worse. Read more →
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Weather
Winter in the upper Midwest, 2017. Read more →
If the Minnesota Department of Transportation isn’t careful, it’s going to make winter snowstorms in Minnesota positively entertaining. The agency today announced that “plowcams” are now available on 511.org, its traffic website. Read more →
A little early, perhaps, we have reached that time of the year that keeps tow truck operators in the tall clover. Read more →
A lot of schools were delayed or closed today because of the weather. The poor weather didn’t reach Wadena, Minn., where it was 2 degrees at sunrise. It didn’t matter. Read more →
What do you do if you live in northern Minnesota, the winter is long, you have a chainsaw and an old outboard motor?
You make motorized ice circles, like Mark Verm did in Nashwauk.
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If you’re planning on walking around Duluth’s waterfront, pack your ice skates. Read more →
The logic of people who think rules and signs don’t apply to them could take up an entire semester of a psychology course.
The ice at Minnehaha Falls is providing a laboratory for this inspection. Read more →
It’s good news and bad news for law enforcement when it snows. Good: It makes it easier to track a perpetrator. Bad: It makes it hard to chase said perp. A Beltrami County deputy demonstrates.
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Let there be no further debate — if there was still any at all — that Minnesota is the state of hockey.
The latest proof comes from Duluth native Cory Fechner of Minneapolis, who had a pond, Google earth, and some GPS mapping knowledge. Oh, and some time on his hands. Read more →
Duluth photographer Levi Drevlow is getting plenty of attention after his Instagram video of sea smoke on Lake Superior last week stormed the Intertubes. Read more →
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety this afternoon released this video, shot from the dash of a State Patrol cruiser, to remind people to slow down in icy conditions. Read more →
… make snowballs. Read more →
With the seasons first big snowfall behind us, the “steamed because I got towed” season is well underway.
In Mankato, 332 cars were towed during the snow emergency on Monday, overflowing the impound lot that usually handles an average of about 150 towed cars when it snows.
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The Weather Channel came out firing today after Breitbart used a video of one of its meteorologists to claim that the earth is cooling. Read more →