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Weather Channel launches ‘Weather Geeks’
There’s a new way for you to get your weather fix each week — sort of a Meet The (Weather) Press. The Weather Channel is launching a new half-hour show on weekends called, appropriately enough, “Weather Geeks.” The weather talk show will focus on current weather topics of the week. The initial show airs Sunday, July…
Tale of two summers?
Grab a Dome Dog and a bucket of popcorn folks. It’s halftime for summer in Minnesota. How did that happen anyway? This week marks the mid-point of meteorological summer, which runs from June 1 to Aug. 31. Yes, we meteorologists march to a different drummer. The climatological reality is that June through August are the three warmest…
Sudden freak Siberian hailstorm video
It’s like a weather horror story. A beautiful day at the beach. Swimmers playing in the refreshing waters. Suddenly a gust of wind kicks up dust and sand. Next huge hail stones begin to fall. First a few hailstones hit. Within seconds, golf ball sized hail is raining down at 100 mph and pounding people fleeing the beach. Nuff…
Jet stream chaos: Record July MN chill, record BC heat
Clearly the Twin Cities Chamber of Commerce didn’t write the forecast this week. A biting wind rips through Minnesota today as a rare July polar vortex spins overhead. The result? Record books in jeopardy, and baseball fans huddling in their Twins sweatshirt or polar fleece as they watch towering home run shots sail up into the howling…
Super Typhoon Neoguri may be the shake that's helping drive an unusually cold polar vortex into the Upper Midwest Monday.