Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Dude makes it so delightful.

I’m talking about Dude Weather, Jimmy Gaines’ hip series of video weather forecasts for Minneapolis. Gaines — or Dutch, as he goes by on-screen – does them each weekday for The Daily Mole, or you can zap straight to YouTube for them. These aren’t slick productions, and Dutch always seems to stumble over a line in every clip. But that’s what makes him so endearing: You know he’s keeping it real, whether he’s using footage of a monkey to poke fun at Weather Channel founder John Coleman’s views on global warming (with an Average White Band album in the background) or staying in his bathrobe for an also-ran Monday report. And with Dutch, you know that a cigarette and casually uttered profanity are never far away.

In Thursday’s forecast clip, he noted that his car wouldn’t start and had a flat tire. As he struggled to fix everything before this weekend’s impending snowstorm, he turned and leaned into the camera and said with exasperation, “Do you think Paul Douglas has this problem?”

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