The weather news is mostly good: hot sunshine Thursday and much of Friday, comfortable blue sky and a drop in humidity Sunday. Thunderstorms on Friday evening are most likely west and southwest of the ...

Ramsey loves watching Tampa Bay’s afternoon storms, but as the most lightning she’s ever seen flashed outside her mobile home ...

Cue hand-waving probabilities and disclaimers, because here’s the rub: Predict storms on the Fourth of July and it doesn’t rain, most people shrug, thankful for a merciful sky. But if you go out on a ...

Storms, given a choice, prefer to come on weekends and major holidays. Since the Fourth of July is Peak Summer with the most number of people outside boating and beaching and gawking at fireworks, ...

Then three warm, sunny, thunder-free days Tuesday, Wednesday and much of Thursday before the next threat of storms on the 4th of July. Probably not an all-day rain, but Friday puddle potential is high ...

Every year in Minnesota the odds of being injured crashing into a deer are roughly the same as being struck by lightning, roughly 1 in a million. Tornadoes “make news” and rightfully so, but a ...

As in I don’t noah when the rain will stop. Lund Boats, up in New York Mills, Minn., is building me a custom ark. I think I’m gonna need a bigger Doppler. I don’t see 40 straight days and nights of ...

Paul Douglas is a nationally-respected meteorologist, with 40 years of broadcast television and radio experience. He provides daily print and online weather services for the Star Tribune. See More ...