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Big Weather Picture: Tornado Bob on Wind Farms, Climate, and Slippery Sidewalks

A chat with our staff meteorologist Bob Conzemius!

In last Tuesday’s talk with "Tornado" Bob Conzemius, Heidi and John discussed the possibility for wind farms on Lake Superior, Bob’s predictions for snowfall this winter, slippery conditions, and how cooling patterns in North America interact with climate change globally! You can tune in to The Big Weather Picture with Tornado Bob on Tuesdays at 8:15.

Our wind farm discussion on the Great Lakes came from our partners at Interlochen Public Radio and their Points North Podcast on Wind Resistance that looks at a first-of-its-kind project has been approved for Lake Erie: six turbines, eight miles from the Cleveland shoreline.

What are your thoughts? Email or text us at 218-326-1234.

Heidi Holtan is Director of Content and Public Affairs. She manages producers/hosts and is the host of the KAXE Morning Show, including a variety of local content like Phenology, What's for Breakfast, Area Voices, The Sports Page and much more, alongside Morning Edition from NPR.
As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.
Charlie Mitchell (she/they) joined KAXE in February of 2022. Charlie creates the Season Watch Newsletter, produces the Phenology Talkbacks show, coordinates the Phenology in the Classroom program, and writes nature-related stories for KAXE's website. Essentailly, Charlie is John Latimer's faithful sidekick and makes sure all of KAXE's nature/phenology programs find a second life online and in podcast form.


With a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, Charlie enjoys learning a little bit about everything, whether it's plants, mushrooms, or the star-nosed mole. (Fun fact: Moles store fat in their tails, so they don't outgrow their tunnels every time conditions are good.)