Paul Douglas is the

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of Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer (born June 12, 1958), a meteorologist, author, entrepreneur, and software expert in Minneapolis-St.Paul,

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

. He has over 30 years of broadcast television and radio experience.

Early life and education

Douglas Kruhoeffer was raised in

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. His hometown is

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. While in high school, he began using the stage name Paul Douglas. He graduated from

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

with a Bachelor of Science degree in

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in 1980.

Career

Broadcasting and journalism

While a senior in college, he began broadcasting the weekend weather reports for

WNEP-TV WNEP-TV (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Montage Mountain Road in Moosi ...

Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre ( or ) is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the secon ...

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, and then after he graduated, he moved to weekdays. He worked for

Satellite News Channel Satellite News Channel (SNC) was an American short-lived news-based cable television channel that was operated as a joint venture between the ABC Video Enterprises division of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (a.k.a. ABC) and the Group W S ...

, based in Stamford, Connecticut, from 1982 to 1983. This was followed by a move to

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

, where he worked at

KARE-TV KARE (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an NBC affiliate. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Olson Memorial Highway ( MN 55) in Golden Val ...

1983 to 1994. He was a weatherman in Chicago at

WBBM-TV WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington Stre ...

for three years before returning to Minneapolis where he worked at

WCCO-TV WCCO-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities area. It is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by th ...

from December 1997 until he was laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by station owner CBS. Douglas wrote a daily weather column for the ''

Star Tribune The ''Star Tribune'' is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. It originated as the ''Minneapolis Tribune'' in 1867 and the competing ''Minneapolis Daily Star'' in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolida ...

'' 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 Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channe ...

show ''

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''. In 2009, the '' St. Cloud Times'' appointed him as the head of their meteorological team and Conservation Minnesota partnered with him to create MNWeatherCenter, a hub for Minnesota weather. In 2010, the ''Star Tribune'' rehired him as a weather blogger.

Businessman

Douglas leads a number of companies that he founded or co-founded, including

WeatherNation WeatherNation TV (branded on-air as simply WeatherNation) is an American terrestial television, broadcast, streaming media, digital streaming, cable television, cable, and satellite television, satellite television network owned by WeatherNatio ...

(as CEO),

Broadcast Weather Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...

(as CEO) and

Smart Energy ''Smart Energy'' is an international, peer-reviewed open-access multi-disciplinary scientific journal focused on energy transition to upcoming smart renewable energy systems. The journal was established in 2021 and is published by Elsevier. The ed ...

(as President). In 2007, he co-founded

SingularLogic Marfin Investment Group (also known as MIG) is a Greek investment company created in 1998 as ''Marfin Α.Ε.Π.Ε.Υ.''. It has acquired several companies and has changed name several times since. In 2001 it acquired ''Piraeus Prime Bank'' and w ...

LLC, a

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, and he founded Broadcast Weather and NoozMe LLC, which hoped to capitalize on SingularLogic's patents. He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the feature films ''

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'' and ''

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''. He made a cameo appearance in a weather center scene in the latter. He co-founde
Digital Cyclone
in 1998 which created weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under th
My-Cast
brand name. Douglas sold Digital Cyclone to

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in 2007 for $45 million.

Author, educator and speaker

Douglas regularly writes and speaks about

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and is critical of those who say that it is not occurring or is not caused by human actions. Douglas has authored two books, ''Prairie Skies: The Minnesota Weather Book'' (1992, ) and ''Restless Skies'' (2004, ). He has taught broadcast meteorology courses at

Saint Cloud State University St. Cloud State University (SCSU) is a public university in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Founded in 1869, the university is one of the largest institutions in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Its enrollment in 2020 was approximate ...

Personal life

Paul Douglas and his wife have at least two sons, Brett and Walt.

References

External links

Article about Douglas's stormy arrival at the StarTribune
at CityPages.com
Paul Douglas Bio
at

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A Republican meteorologist looks at climate change
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