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

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
. He worked at WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
 in Minneapolis, Minnesota from December 1997 until being laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by CBS. He was previously employed by WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated station television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located within the CBS 2 Broadcast Center located in The Loop at 22 W Washington Street....
 in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 from 1994–1997 and KARE
KARE

KARE, Channel 11, is an NBC - affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota area of Minnesota and portions of western Wisconsin....
 in Golden Valley, Minnesota
Golden Valley, Minnesota

Golden Valley is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. It is a western suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills and Pentair....
 from 1983 to 1994.

Douglas also wrote a daily weather column for the Star Tribune
Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area....
 from 1997 until his ironic replacement by the WCCO-TV weather team in February 2009.






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

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
. He worked at WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
 in Minneapolis, Minnesota from December 1997 until being laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by CBS. He was previously employed by WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated station television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located within the CBS 2 Broadcast Center located in The Loop at 22 W Washington Street....
 in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 from 1994–1997 and KARE
KARE

KARE, Channel 11, is an NBC - affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota area of Minnesota and portions of western Wisconsin....
 in Golden Valley, Minnesota
Golden Valley, Minnesota

Golden Valley is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. It is a western suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills and Pentair....
 from 1983 to 1994.

Douglas also wrote a daily weather column for the Star Tribune
Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area....
 from 1997 until his ironic replacement by the WCCO-TV weather team in February 2009. provided forecasts for three local radio stations; but is a reporter for the Twin Cities Public Television
Twin Cities Public Television

Twin Cities Public Television is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Minneapolis-St. Paul' two PBS member stations, KTCA-TV and KTCI-TV ....
 show Almanac
Almanac (TV series)

Almanac is a Public affairs programming television series produced by Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minnesota and distributed to other channels around the state via Minnesota Public Television ....
.

He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the films Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 in film science fiction film Thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton....
 and Twister. He also co-founded in 1998. The company creates weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the brand name. Douglas sold Digital Cyclone to in 2007 for $45 million dollars.

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

In 2007, He was cofounder of SingularLogic LLC, a patent holding company
Patent holding company

Patent holding companies are company set up to administer, consolidate and license patents or otherwise enforce patent rights, such as through litigation....
, and founder of WeatherNation LLC and NoozMe LLC, which hope to capitalize on SingularLogic's patents.

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