Bob Collins
Coverage of the flooding in southern Minnesota with continuous updates.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Weather
What made “tornado alley” move 500 miles north — to Minnesota — this summer? Why have there been two major floods in Iowa in recent years, and annual flooding in the Red River Valley of Minnesota?
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NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock snapped a photo of Hurricane Earl on Aug. 30, 2010 as it was located about 110 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Weather photo of the day
Like some of the pictures we saw from the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil disaster, good photography can make bad news beautiful.
David Cazares
On a sweltering day like today, a healing drink of cold water on a public golf course can be rather hard to come by. Turns out it’s sort of a tough decision for Minnesota golf course operators whether to provide a few coolers for customers, many of whom develop a mighty thirst during a typical four to five hour round.
A giant hailstone that fell in South Dakota has set the national record for weight and diameter, according to the National Weather Service.
Is there a better show in town than when big storms leave the Twin Cities, settle over Wisconsin, and allow us to watch the lightning from the comfort of the front lawn?
Normally, predictions of severe weather have to be calculated to subtract the human tendency of weather experts to blow things out of proportion, but today feels different. Even without media, weather radios, and sirens, any trick knee will reveal that today’s weather is going to be bad.
The people who will have the biggest problem are the ones who ignored warnings about driving through standing water.
The commuters of St. Paul and Minneapolis had it rough, especially the ‘Never Say Dry’ bicycle commuters.