Eric Ringham
A driving instructor offers simple advice: Don’t give up.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Weather
Bob Collins
Warm temperatures in October is pretty fun, as long as you don’t think too much about the wrongness of it all.
Why were there so many deaths from the tornado in Joplin, Missouri? The National Weather Service blames the people of Joplin.
Driving across Indiana has always been the most boring part of our drives to and from the East Coast. But not today. Every few minutes, from the Ohio line to South Bend, convoys of utility trucks and tree crews — two people to a truck — were heading toward hurricane country. The various news agencies Read more →
dgaraets
A good morning at the falls
Storm video
It’s not the heat…
I’m out storm chasing the system that spawned tornado warnings along Highway 52. As Paul Huttner was on the air saying the system was probably cold-weather, funnel clouds, I sat along the highway south of Inver Grove Heights and watched the system head to the northwest, then turn slightly and head over West St. Paul. Read more →
Lost in all the coverage of fires in Arizona, the tornadoes of Missouri and Minnesota and a government shutdown in the state is this item: A good share of Minot, North Dakota is about to be washed away.
If you speak the language, this may interest you: A transition from La Niña to ENSO-neutral conditions occurred during May 2011 as indicated by generally small sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies across the equatorial Pacific Ocean east of the Date Line (Fig. 1). The latest weekly Niño index values (Fig. 2) showed near-average SSTs in Read more →
A couple of weeks after the team didn’t tell patrons that a tornado warning had been issued for Minneapolis, the Minnesota Twins announced today the National Weather Service has made Target Field a “StormReady supporter.” But far from a response to not telling patrons of the tornado warning, the Twins’ decision may reflect its value. Read more →