Bob Collins
The flooding comes at a bad time. In the spring, the schools are in and the supply of young people with strong backs is inexhaustible. Not so in late June. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Weather
Is the Green Line more a transportation system or development tool? Read more →
I’m pretty sure there’s such a thing as climate change and I’m pretty sure humans are responsible for it. I also think it’s too late to do anything about it even if we were a country capable of discussing the question in a reasonably intellectual way. Read more →
During Monday night’s tornado scare in Nebraska and Iowa, the Weather Channel TV meteorologists told people in the Sioux City, Iowa, area to evacuate. It’s not a call that’s the TV channel’s to make. Read more →
We know how tempting it can be to believe your car can get through a little standing water so we’re giving a woman on I-90 near the South Dakota border the benefit of the doubt. Read more →
It’s hard to wrap our head around the destruction a tornado can cause. There’s not much left of Pilger, Nebraska, where the twin tornadoes struck yesterday. Read more →
Twin tornadoes are raking the farm fields of Nebraska. This is the live coverage being provided to the Weather Channel. Storm chasing is an obviously dangerous hobby, best left to the experts. Even so, it’s something I’ve always wanted to try, even though it has very little informational value. A decent Doppler radar and a Read more →
his is the sort of flooding we see in March in western Minnesota but this time it’s because of 6 inches of rain that fell overnight in Luverne. Read more →
This moment, caught on a security camera in Canada, pretty well destroys everything we’ve been told about being in a vehicle during a thunderstorm.
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At last report Christine Kloeppner is still in intensive care after being hit by lightning over the weekend and here’s hoping something good comes of the tragedy. In this case, ‘something good’ would be a reminder to youth baseball and sports leagues to treat lightning in the area just a little more seriously. Read more →
A new study suggests there is sexism in how we approach pending disaster.
Researchers at the University of Illinois reportedly have found that more people are killed by female-named hurricanes than male-named storms ‘simply because a storm with a feminine name is seen as less foreboding than one with a more masculine name.’ Read more →
Say what you want about it being -25 in January, but at least there are no mosquitoes.
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Today’s forecast. Mostly sunny, high in the 80s with a chance of icebergs. Kid on iceberg Monday at Madeline Island harbor. Not sure how he got there but boat picked him up pic.twitter.com/hHjxVfjr1U — Andrew Krueger (@akpix) May 27, 2014
Remember when it was Tornado Awareness Week and the weather experts said you should use to figure out where you would go in a tornado? Remember all the time growing up when authorities told you don’t use your vehicle for protection. Remember when they said don’t try to outrun a tornado? Read more →
From the “Can Your Winter Do This?” file: A couple of fishermen were out on Lake Michigan near Traverse City this week when this came along. “They crept up on our boat and then we could see that it was a cloud that was really close to the water. We thought about pulling in our Read more →