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Sometimes ‘hot’ is just ‘hot.’ Or not

Bob Collins April 3, 2012, 12:06 PM Apr 3, 2012

Welcome to another day of science trying to explain March and the recently expired winter.

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Mixing weather and climate

Bob Collins March 26, 2012, 12:09 PM Mar 26, 2012

It’s getting harder and harder to know when it’s OK to mix climate and weather together.

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A tornado’s connections

Bob Collins March 6, 2012, 1:38 PM Mar 6, 2012

People who didn’t know each other before last Friday’s tornadoes, know each other now.

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1,000 words: The cleanup

Bob Collins March 3, 2012, 9:36 AM Mar 3, 2012

This is a scene being repeated all over the country today as people return to their destroyed homes to find pieces of their lives in the rubble from tornadoes. This morning, Marta Righthouse of Marysville, Indiana was one of the people pulling out what seems to be everyone’s first choice — the family photo albums. Read more →

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Chasing tornadoes

Bob Collins March 2, 2012, 1:13 PM Mar 2, 2012

Tornado season is also the start of storm-chasing season.

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Snow day fun in Duluth

Bob Collins February 29, 2012, 5:28 PM Feb 29, 2012

Snow skiing while being towed by a Jeep.

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Weekend forecast: Partly to mostly eelpouty

Bob Collins February 10, 2012, 10:27 AM Feb 10, 2012

It was -8 this morning in Walker, Minnesota, and TV and radio weatherpeople turned in their ‘I’m a real Minnesotan’ cards by lamenting the temperature.

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Tribute to a storm chaser

Bob Collins February 5, 2012, 11:37 AM Feb 5, 2012

Andy Gabrielson was killed by a wrong-way driver in Oklahoma.

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Sculpture interruptus

Bob Collins January 30, 2012, 2:04 PM Jan 30, 2012

With temperatures pushing the 40s, it was the smart ice sculpture fan who spent lunch hour in Saint Paul’s Rice Park for the viewing of the Winter Carnival snow sculpture contest.

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