Bob Collins
For many people, the calendar is irrelevant when it comes to the first day of winter. It starts when the Madeline Island Ferry calls it a season because of ice on Lake Superior between the island and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Read more →
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Things could be worse. We could be without the entertainment value of Lake Superior during the state’s worst cold snaps. Read more →
Roger Hanson won’t be making his ice tower in Big Lake this year. Superior, Wisconsin has hired him away to make the world’s largest ice tower in the city. Read more →
A below-zero night is a small price to pay for a good look at the Northern Lights, as was the case early this morning in St. Cloud.
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Minnesota Vikings fans found out the hard way yesterday that it’s worth paying attention to the snow emergency rules in the city following the paralyzing three- to four-inch snowstorm on Saturday. Read more →
If you play your cards wrong around here, you can commute to work in the dark, spend the day in a windowless room, and then commute back home again in the dark.
The only way to lift the gloom is to calculate how much longer we’ll have to endure this. Read more →
A decision this week by the Minnesota Supreme Court will never make the news but it’s significant for anyone in Minnesota with siding that might get damaged in a hailstorm.
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We’re not sure what the most impressive element of this video — discovered thanks to a KARE 11 tweet — is: the shorts in December, the shirtless lads, the water skiis on ice, the tricks they do, the fact they’re wearing life jackets, or that they didn’t fall through the ice on a lake in Brainerd. We just know it’s pretty spectacular.
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People in southern California are sandbagging in anticipation of heavy rain.
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Last evening, the CBC posted a voicemail from an irate listener who has had it with weatherpeople promising ‘nice’ weather at this time of year.
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The unbelievable blizzard in western New York is perfect for capturing by quadcopter.
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All the weather attention has been on Buffalo — deservedly so — but when it comes to lake-effect snow, our wet friend to the north is no slouch.
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You know the type. You usually end up behind him/her. Read more →
Minnesotans tend to snicker a bit when paralysis grips states to our east in the winter. But we’ve got nothing on Buffalo where five feet of snow has fallen and more is expected today. Read more →
To remember the 39th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the National Weather Service in Marquette is tweeting the weather in “real time” today.
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