[4] While a senior in college, he began broadcasting the weekend weather reports for WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and then after he graduated, he moved to weekdays.
[4] He was a weatherman in Chicago at WBBM-TV for three years[5][3] before returning to Minneapolis where he worked at WCCO-TV from December 1997 until he was laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by station owner CBS.
[12] He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the feature films Jurassic Park and Twister.
He co-founded Digital Cyclone in 1998[3] which created weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the My-Cast brand name.
[13] Douglas regularly writes and speaks about global warming and is critical of those who say that it is not occurring or is not caused by human actions.