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Sven Sundgaard is YOUR trusted Minnesota meteorologist (with over 2 decades experience), teacher and licensed realtor!
A lot of careful analysis, time and expertise goes into forecasting weather in one of the most volatile regions of the planet (i.e. Minnesota-Wisconsin). YOU can SUPPORT this work & content! Without your support it's not possible.
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Sven Sundgaard's forecasts can be seen on Bring Me the News and heard on MPR Morning's Edition, weekday mornings at
7:49am with Cathy Wurzer. Sven worked in television for 17 years, starting in Duluth at KBJR-TV (NBC affiliate) where he worked for two and a half years and then made the jump to the Twin Cities (his home) at KARE-TV, where he remained for
14 years. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in meteorology from St. Cloud State University in 2003. Sundgaard was obsessed with weather from the early age of 12.
Sven is also an avid world explorer. He prefers this to the term 'traveler,' since he truly likes to learn as he sees incredible things around the planet. He's been to each continent except Antarctica (where he was poised to go in January 2021 but covid had other plans- he hopes to make plans to get there soon). Sven has brought his camera, microphone and notepad to many places to also tell the stories of climate change, something he's passionate about educating people on. Some highlighted pieces are below.
Explore with Sven: Botswana
Much of interior Southern Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. These areas are already arid with long dry seasons and short, but vital rainy seasons. Those seasons are being altered in a warmer planet with more extreme temperatures and less dependable rains. The wildlife of these areas are very hardy and adaptable but climate change along with habitat destruction, fragmentation is altering things too fast creating an extinction threat.
Explore with Sven: Monarch Butterfly Migration
Every Autumn an incredible journey begins. Millions of Monarch Butterflies leave southern Canada & northern U.S. states bound for just about a dozen mountains in Mexico's Trans-Volcanic belt. They've never been there. It was their great grandparents who last did this trek. These mountains, at about 10,000 feet have just the right micro-climates to keep the monarchs in a 'preserved state,' using minimal energy until spring. They will start mating in February & March and the females will make one last, shorter trip to Texas & Louisiana to lay eggs for the future generation. The migration is at risk due to climate change & the loss of their milkweed & pollinator habitats as well as illegal logging in their winter mountain home.
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