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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Updraft® is your source for Minnesota forecasts and insights from our expert meteorologists, Paul Huttner, Sven Sundgaard and Mandy Thalhuber.

MPR News brings you the latest weather outlook, across all of Minnesota, so you can be better prepared for your day.

Different day, same weather story

Different day, same weather story

The last several days have been Minnesota's version of the movie "Groundhog Day." Expect the weather today to be very similar to what we experienced on Wednesday.
by Craig Edwards

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Getting settled in for the season

Getting settled in for the season

The question of the day: “Do you see a thaw coming?” Not in the foreseeable future. “Okay, how about more snow?” Stay tuned. Meteorologists don’t like to hedge, but playing the part of the politician often comes to the forefront. In other words, we dance around the question. I am fairly certain that a “warm…
by Craig Edwards

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Storm delivers heavy snow north, messy metro mix

Storm delivers heavy snow north, messy metro mix

Well this is fun! The season’s first winter storm dumped heavy snow as expected from the northern Twin Cities metro to St, Cloud and along Interstate-35 toward Hinckley. It also threw the central and southern metro a curve with less snow than forecast, but made up for that in impact with a mix of sleet and freezing…
by Paul Huttner

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Monday snow mostly on track, 6″ to 14″ metro range

Monday snow mostly on track, 6″ to 14″ metro range

I noticed a lot more gray hair in the Weather Lab mirror tonight. After three days of basically rock solid forecast model runs suggesting the same storm track and heavy snowfall distribution, some of Sunday evening’s model runs showed a distinct northward jog in the expected storm track. As if we needed another reminder on why forecasting snowfall…
by Paul Huttner

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Travel likely to be difficult Monday afternoon as winter storm arrives

Travel likely to be difficult Monday afternoon as winter storm arrives

The advertised snowstorm will get geared up later tonight.  Minnesota and Wisconsin are likely to get dumped on. Some locations, as Paul has noted, are expected to accumulate more than a foot of snow by daybreak on Tuesday. The low pressure that will generate heavy snowfall at the rate of more than an inch per…
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