Mark Anderson Meteorologist Our very active weather pattern has been continuing this week across Minnesota. On Sunday, a fast moving shortwave pushed across the region. For much of central and west ce…
Tidying up
Jill Pertler “Slices of Life” We all wake up in the morning, unless we work the night shift. Then we go to bed in the morning and wake in the evening. But despite differing schedules, we all have som…
No shadow = Early spring
By Mark Anderson, Meteorologist For those of you sick of winter and hoping for an early spring, you may be in luck according to one prognosticator. On Ground Hog Day, Puxatawny Phil didn’t see his sha…
Touching gestures
Sandy Holthaus I wrote my fist column for the Annandale Advocate in November of 2006. That’s more than 300 columns collected over the years. My mother has kept a copy of each and every one in scrapboo…
Extreme cold temps, Jan. 31
Weather column: As I write this weather column, I was telling my wife Tracey that I don’t know when I have written so many negative numbers when it comes to writing the projected temperatures in my 20…
English discrepancies
Jill Pertler “Slices of Life” The English language is a formidable beast, even for those of us who learned it as our first language. Language is all about meaning – communication. And sometimes contex…
Colder temps coming
Mark Anderson Meteorologist Weather column: It has been mild for the start of the week. Temperatures have been in the mid to upper 20s and even into the low to mid 30s for Greater Minnesota. A weak sy…
Sandy Holthaus: Aspire to be inspirational
The year was 1979 and I was a Freshman at Cook County High School. I wasn’t nervous because in the 70s we entered high school in seventh grade, so I had already spent two years walking the halls of go…
Heavy snow fell in northeastern Minnesota
Mark Anderson Meteorologist Weather column: It was a messy commute once again for some people across Minnesota on Monday morning. Another system pushed across Minnesota Sunday night into early Monday.…
Bitter cold closes out 2018
Mark Anderson Meteorologist We had some bitterly cold air in place to close out the year and the final weekend of 2018. Temperatures dropped from 10 below to 15 below zero in some parts of the region …