Bob CollinsThe laws of physics continue to get a good workout on the area lakes and truck drivers continue to test whether ice is still thick enough to drive on. Read more →
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Weather
If we can’t talk about the weather anymore, what future is there for human communication at all? Read more →
Joanne and Tomas Lopez, of Frogtown, provide the perfect example of why we bristle at the dour expressions and tone of media folks when they talk about snow in Minnesota. Read more →
We don’t get as much snow in the winter, and the air coming into Minnesota and the Dakotas from the Arctic isn’t near as cold as it used to be. In short: we’re losing our reputation. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve noticed spring is in the air. Literally. The geese are returning to flyover country.
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It’s been a rough winter again in New England, where a nor’easter has struck for the third time in the last few weeks.
Fortunately, for the Boston cops, Jason Triplett, 37, had purchased proper winter clothing for pushing a Boston Police wagon out of the snow: Queen Elsa’s costume from ‘Frozen.’
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No matter how much we may love winter, this is the time of the year where even a moderate dumping of snow can send us over the edge.
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This is about the time of year when our self-delusion that we really enjoy it runs out of gas. Read more →
There’s little that adds more chill to the wind than images of baseball stadiums in winter. As long as we’re going to have winter, though, we might as well make something of it. Check out this video with snow artist Simon Beck at Target Field. Read more →
Hi there, visitors. Welcome to our state. Before you unpack, please understand that one of the reasons why the locals — who love the cold, they say — are talking about how terribly cold it is today is so that you’ll think highly of our ability to ignore the cold and pretend we love it so much we dread the coming summer. Just humor us; it’s a thing.
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The Lord loveth a cheerful plower. Read more →
We can learn a lot from squirrels. Today’s lesson: Everything in perspective.
Take this week’s big snow dump, for example. It was horrible, what with buses being stuck and gridlock keeping people from happy hour and all. Read more →
Some children were still unable to get home from St. Paul schools last night as late as 11 p.m. The school district blamed the forecasts, which accurately predicted the storm. Read more →
It’s probably cold comfort to the people aboard all of those planes in blue that the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is officially ‘open’ during the blizzard-like conditions this afternoon. Read more →
Our football fantasy was fun while it lasted but let’s get back to the number one job of a Minnesota winter. Drinking on the ice and downing a shot of minnows. Read more →