Paul Douglas (meteorologist)

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Paul Douglas (real name Doug Kruhoeffer)[1] is a meteorologist for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis-St.Paul. He has also writes a daily weather column for the Star Tribune since 1997 and does forecasts for three local radio stations and a report for the Twin Cities Public Television show Almanac

He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the films Jurassic Park and Twister. He also co-founded Digital Cyclone in 1998. The company creates weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the My-Cast brand name.

Douglas worked at WCCO-TV rival KARE-TV (formerly WTCN-TV) from 1983 to 1994[2]. He then moved to WBBM-TV in Chicago for an unsuccessful stint from 1994 to 1997 (he was infamously nicknamed "the goof on the roof"[3]. He moved back to the Twin Cites in 1997 and began writing for the StarTribune (replacing the then-KARE-TV weatherman Ken Barlow) and joined WCCO-TV in 1998, after his non-compete clause with KARE-TV ran out.

He has authored two books, Prairie Skies (1991) and Restless Skies (2004)[4] and made a cameo appearance in the movie Twister as himself.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The World Wide Web's Local Weatherman
  2. ^ bio for speakers program has both dates
  3. ^ Quoted several places but also in at least two City Pages articles including this one
  4. ^ publisher notes

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