Paul Douglas (meteorologist)
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Paul Douglas is the stage name[1] of Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer (born June 12, 1958),[2] a meteorologist, author, entrepreneur, and software expert[citation needed] in Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota. He has over 30 years of broadcast television and radio experience.[1]
Early life and education[]
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Douglas Kruhoeffer was raised in Pennsylvania.[3] His hometown is Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] While in high school, he began using the stage name Paul Douglas.[1] He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology in 1980.[4]
Career[]
Broadcasting and journalism[]
While a senior in college, he began broadcasting the weekend weather reports for WNEP-TV in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania, and then after he graduated, he moved to weekdays.[1] He worked for Satellite News Channel, based in Stamford, Connecticut, from 1982 to 1983.[4] This was followed by a move to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked at KARE-TV 1983 to 1994.[4] He was a weatherman in Chicago at WBBM-TV for three years[5][3] before returning to Minneapolis where he worked at WCCO-TV from December 1997 until he was laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by CBS.[6][5]
Douglas wrote a daily weather column for the Star Tribune from 1997 until his replacement by the WCCO-TV weather team in February 2009. He provided forecasts for three local radio stations. He has been a reporter for the Twin Cities Public Television show Almanac.
In 2009, the St. Cloud Times appointed him as the head of their meteorological team[7][8] and partnered with him to create MNWeatherCenter,[9] a hub for Minnesota weather.
In 2010, the Star Tribune rehired him as a weather blogger.[10]
Businessman[]
Douglas leads a number of companies that he founded or co-founded, including WeatherNation (as CEO), AerisWeather (as Chief Meteorologist), (as CEO) and (as President).[11] In 2007, he co-founded SingularLogic LLC, a patent holding company, and he founded Broadcast Weather and LLC, which hoped to capitalize on SingularLogic's patents.[12]
He founded in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the feature films Jurassic Park and Twister.[3] He made a cameo appearance in a weather center scene in the latter. He co-founded Digital Cyclone in 1998[3] which created weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the My-Cast brand name. Douglas sold Digital Cyclone to Garmin[3] in 2007 for $45 million.[13]
Author, educator and speaker[]
Douglas regularly writes and speaks about global warming and is critical of those who say that it is not occurring or is not caused by human actions.[14]
Douglas has authored two books, Prairie Skies: The Minnesota Weather Book (1992, ISBN 9780896582088) and Restless Skies (2004, ISBN 0760761132).[15]
He has taught broadcast meteorology courses at Saint Cloud State University.[1]
Personal life[]
Paul Douglas and his wife have at least two sons, Brett and Walt.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Paul Douglas". calvin.edu. Calvin University. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Rocks, David (March 27, 2001). "The World Wide Web's Local Weatherman". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Paul Douglas". broadcast-weather.com. Media Logic Group, LLC. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Bio". PaulDouglasFoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-27.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Battle, Roxane. "With Douglas out at 'CCO, TV anchors are no longer 'safe'". MinnPost.com. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Collins, Bob (April 4, 2008). "WCCO layoffs". minnesota.publicradio.org. Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Kaiser, Emily (March 30, 2009). "Paul Douglas is back! In St. Cloud, at least". CityPages.com. Archived from the original on December 28, 2009. Retrieved January 14, 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ St. Cloud Times Weather
- ^ "MNWeatherCenter". mnweathercenter.org. Archived from the original on June 18, 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Douglas, Paul (February 14, 2010). "A Midwinter Reality Check". On Weather. Star Tribune. Archived from the original on February 18, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2020 – via startribune.com.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul Douglas". LinkedIn.com. Paul Douglas.
- ^ Gordon, Jack. "Paul Douglas's New Forecast". Twin Cities Business Journal. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved January 14, 2020 – via TCBMag.com.
- ^ Vomhof, John Jr. (April 4, 2008). "WCCO-TV cuts staff, including weatherman Paul Douglas". Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Brauer, David (October 28, 2010). "Paul Douglas: 'I'm a recovering Republican, and I don't recognize my party any more.'". MinnPost.com.
- ^ "Publisher notes".
External links[]
- Article about Douglas's stormy arrival at the StarTribune at CityPages.com
- Paul Douglas Bio at National Science Teachers Association
- A Republican meteorologist looks at climate change April 2, 2012
- American television meteorologists
- 1958 births
- Living people