Bob Collins
A few videos have surfaced documenting today’s monsoon that hit the Twin Cities.
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Tag: Weather
It’s not the heat…
I’m out storm chasing the system that spawned tornado warnings along Highway 52. As Paul Huttner was on the air saying the system was probably cold-weather, funnel clouds, I sat along the highway south of Inver Grove Heights and watched the system head to the northwest, then turn slightly and head over West St. Paul. Read more →
Lost in all the coverage of fires in Arizona, the tornadoes of Missouri and Minnesota and a government shutdown in the state is this item: A good share of Minot, North Dakota is about to be washed away.
If you speak the language, this may interest you: A transition from La Niña to ENSO-neutral conditions occurred during May 2011 as indicated by generally small sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies across the equatorial Pacific Ocean east of the Date Line (Fig. 1). The latest weekly Niño index values (Fig. 2) showed near-average SSTs in Read more →
A couple of weeks after the team didn’t tell patrons that a tornado warning had been issued for Minneapolis, the Minnesota Twins announced today the National Weather Service has made Target Field a “StormReady supporter.” But far from a response to not telling patrons of the tornado warning, the Twins’ decision may reflect its value. Read more →
There are so many troubling aspects to this just-released video of a water rescue in Arkansas.
The Saint Paul glacier
David Cazares
“I’m not interested in what you had for lunch.”
That’s the kind of complaint I hear often from Twitter skeptics. They’re partially right — there’s a lot garbage on Twitter.
But Twitter can also act as a vital news service, of course.
North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale has released security camera footage of the tornado that ripped through north Minneapolis on Sunday.
Some people in Fillmore County might be feeling a little slighted; a tornado struck there on Sunday, too.
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