Bob CollinsThe plan to get somewhere is a powerful force. It can make you do things you know you shouldn’t do. But we do them anyway. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you don’t. Read more →
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Weather
The summer solstice provides us with another opportunity to consider the half-full/half-empty nature of the cosmos. Read more →
According to the reaction this video is getting, there are a lot of sailing experts on social media with advice to give.
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A little warmer temperature, some gusty winds and voila! We get one of the most entertaining weather events of the year: the march of the lake ice. Read more →
You’re hearing a lot about ‘ice out’ on area lakes at this time of the year. Who reports these things?
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The Midwest, where just a few weeks after highways are closed because of a blizzard, dust storms cause havoc on the same roadways. Read more →
The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office tried to explain the science of the sun angle in order to keep people off the ice.
That’s probably not going to work. Read more →
Actually, summer comes early in Minnesota.
MPR social media savant Julia Schrenkler can prove it.
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Trucks. It’s always the trucks causing the havoc on Minnesota highways after a storm.
The trucks sit out in the blizzards, accumulating an armory of ice and snow and then hit the highways with predictable results, as a Dakota County ranger learned anew. Read more →
Because Mother Nature won’t cut us a break, there’s nothing we need more than the warm feeling of love conquering all, especially Mother Nature. Read more →
A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper stopped his car on a snow-swept highway to do 39 push-ups. One for each law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty so far this year. Read more →
I’ll start. Is it that you don’t know how to turn your car’s lights on, Minnesota?
If not for Rowland Fowler, the people of Embarrass, Minn., might not have much of a reason to be so darned proud of their little slice of paradise.
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Logan Morrison, the new Minnesota Twins player, has learned an important lesson.
When it comes to baseball players complaining about the weather, don’t. Read more →
We’ve never met a state climatologist we didn’t like — or any climatologist for that matter — and we suspect Harry Hillaker would continue the streak. Alas, he’s retiring as Iowa’s climatologist, the Des Moines Register says. There’s something comforting about seeing the state’s climatology records are kept in file cabinets… on paper. So old Read more →