Paul Douglas is the stage name [1] of Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer (born June 12, 1958), [2] a meteorologist, author, and entrepreneur in Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota. He has over 30 years of broadcast television and radio experience. [1]
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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]
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 station owner 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 Conservation Minnesota partnered with him to create MNWeatherCenter, [9] a hub for Minnesota weather.
In 2010, the Star Tribune rehired him as a weather blogger. [10]
Douglas leads a number of companies that he founded or co-founded, including WeatherNation (as CEO), Broadcast Weather (as CEO) and Smart Energy (as President). [11] In 2007, he co-founded SingularLogic LLC, a patent holding company, and he founded Broadcast Weather and NoozMe LLC, which hoped to capitalize on SingularLogic's patents. [12]
He founded EarthWatch Communications 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]
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]
Paul Douglas and his wife have at least two sons, Brett and Walt. [3]
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