Paul Douglas (born June 12, 1958) (given name, Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer)^[1] is a meteorologist, author, entrepreneur, and software expert in Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota. He worked at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota from December 1997 until being laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by CBS.^[2][3] He was previously employed by WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1994–1997 and KARE in Golden Valley, Minnesota from 1983 to 1994.

Douglas also wrote a daily weather column for the Star Tribune from 1997 until his ironic replacement by the WCCO-TV weather team in February 2009. He provided forecasts for three local radio stations; but is a reporter 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 sold Digital Cyclone to Garmin in 2007 for $45 million dollars.^[4]

Douglas has authored two books, Prairie Skies (1991) and Restless Skies^[5] (2004)^[6] and made a cameo appearance in the movie Twister as himself.

In 2007, He was cofounder of SingularLogic LLC, a patent holding company, and founder of WeatherNation LLC and NoozMe LLC, which hope to capitalize on SingularLogic's patents.^[7][8][9]

In 2009, the St. Cloud Times in Central Minnesota took him on as the lead for their own meteorological team^[10][11] and Conservation Minnesota partnered with him to create MNWeatherCenter, a hub for Minnesota weather.

[edit] Paul Magers controversy

During his time with KARE, Douglas developed a popular on-air chemistry with anchor Paul Magers that turned scandalous following a March 1994 evening broadcast in which Douglas and Magers exchanged a set of lightly-veiled sexual innuendos, climaxing in Douglas's partially-aired admission that he and Magers had been intimate at the KARE-TV station the night previous. Following the broadcast, KARE-TV issued no formal reprimand or apology, inciting criticism from viewers and local religious groups who disapproved of KARE's decision to still feature a purportedly gay on-air duo.^[12] Douglas later denied any involvement with Magers, insisting that it was a joke in poor taste.^[13] Douglas's tenure at the studio ultimately ended prematurely.

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• Article about Douglas's stormy arrival at the StarTribune