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MN ice-dam workers hailed as heroes in Boston

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 5, 2015, 8:15 AM Mar 5, 2015
6

Those Minnesotan ice-dam specialists who rode to the rescue in Massachusetts are getting some Bostonian love today. Read more →

Weather

When it comes to winter, Boston is the new Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2015, 9:22 AM Mar 4, 2015
8

Many people in Boston apparently haven’t had enough snow yet. What’s wrong with them? Read more →

Weather

So long, winter!

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2015, 8:05 AM Feb 27, 2015
20

Today is the last workday of winter. Read more →

Science · Weather

Snowball disproves climate change, senator suggests

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2015, 4:16 PM Feb 26, 2015
18

It’s tempting to say the climate change ‘debate’ reached its silliest possible point today. Read more →

Weather

Don’t like snow? Sell it!

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2015, 8:41 AM Feb 25, 2015
5

This just in from the Department of Why Didn’t You Think of This. Read more →

Weather

1,000 Words: The stuck car

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2015, 2:18 PM Feb 24, 2015
3

People in the northeast have had it with winter. On its Facebook page today, the Massachusetts State Police say the driver simply abandoned this car. Read more →

Weather

SCSU students plan spring break bike ride to Winnipeg

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2015, 8:05 AM Feb 24, 2015
3

Don’t be complaining to Quentin Super and Ryan Brandenburg, two students at St. Cloud State University, about the silly wind chill. With spring break looming, they’re hitting their bicycles and heading… north, the St. Cloud Times reports. Read more →

Weather

1,000 Words: The snow commuters

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 20, 2015, 7:57 AM Feb 20, 2015
20

New England stole our winter. Read more →

Sports · Weather

Today is the first day of spring

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 18, 2015, 11:32 AM Feb 18, 2015
8

For baseball fans, today is groundhog day. The day when pitchers and catchers see their shadows, signifying the beginning of spring. Read more →

Weather

Time running out for ice-cave access on Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 18, 2015, 9:16 AM Feb 18, 2015
0

The chances are dwindling that the ice caves on Lake Superior will be available to you this year. Read more →

Weather

When TV weatherpeople get too excited

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2015, 11:14 AM Feb 15, 2015
4

Today’s proof that TV meteorologists are not of this world comes from — surprise! — The Weather Channel, which was camped out on a beach on Cape Cod to document the latest assault from winter when a perfectly natural thing happened.
Read more →

Weather

Plow driver takes frustration out on a car

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2015, 8:47 AM Feb 11, 2015
2

You’ve got to feel a little bit for the city snowplow driver in Manchester, New Hampshire.

With six feet of snow falling in the last 30 days, you’d think people would have gotten the message that cars parked on the street hinder the ability to clear them.

A few days ago, a snowplow driver took it out on one car. Read more →

Weather

Bringing in the ice near Ely

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 10, 2015, 11:15 AM Feb 10, 2015
1

We’d probably last less than day living the simple life, but there’s still something comforting about the Ice Ball, the annual get-together near Ely where people haul ice out of a pond on Will Steger’s estate. It happened on Saturday, as it has every year since 1967. Read more →

Weather

When transit systems collapse

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 10, 2015, 7:31 AM Feb 10, 2015
13

If you want to get around the country’s 10th-largest metropolitan area, you better own a car today. Read more →

Weather

Embracing winter: The bar-stool races

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 9, 2015, 9:45 AM Feb 9, 2015
1

Yep, we’re hunkered down here in flyover country, just waiting until spring.

Right, Ironton?
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