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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.

AM thunder, PM sauna, heat advisory issued

AM thunder, PM sauna, heat advisory issued

One of the beauties of tracking weather systems is that until they develop they’re like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. Case in point, late August warm fronts in Minnesota. They often bubble north at night, and fire so called “nocturnal” thunderstorms. These storms like to develop as…
by Paul Huttner

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Stormy then steamy Fair opener; Cristobal lurks

Stormy then steamy Fair opener; Cristobal lurks

Batten down the tent strings and fire up the the misters at the Great Minnesota Get Together. It’s going to be a potentially wet and sweaty start to the 2014 Minnesota State Fair. I hope you will join me, Kerri Miller and University of St. Thomas climate change expert John Abraham for a special one-hour Climate Cast…
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Changeable skies, TS Cristoabl in Gulf next week?

Changeable skies, TS Cristoabl in Gulf next week?

Mixed weather fare Our weather forecast the next few days looks a lot like food choices at the Minnesota State Fair. A new menu item is only a few minutes away. Over the next 72 hours Minnesota savors a weather smorgasbord. Our buffet features fog, sun, thunder, rain and tropical humidity. Throw in a September breezes…
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A steamy Fair start, and a mixed weather bag today

A steamy Fair start, and a mixed weather bag today

If you don’t like the weather just wait 15 minutes. - Anonymous Welcome to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 Lakes and a million weather extremes. Land of Sky Blue Waters? Talk about optimism. Gray dominates the landscape today in the northeast as a swirling low pressure system lollygags over northern Wisconsin and western Lake Superior. The rest…
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Scattered T-storms, Twin Cities top 10 ‘heat island?’

Scattered T-storms, Twin Cities top 10 ‘heat island?’

Hit or miss That’s the classic summer phrase for the often scattered thunderstorm coverage in Minnesota. Summer rain is very different spatially from more uniform stratiform winter rain and snow. This week’s weather fare features a smattering of thundershowers. Our short-term hit or miss thunder threat hangs around overnight, and generally east of the Interstate-35…
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Stormy Monday: Heavy downpours, severe threat

Stormy Monday: Heavy downpours, severe threat

The car or train may get you into work this morning. The kayak may be the preferred mode of transport home during PM rush. A spinning low pressure system over North Dakota cuts into a tropical air mass over Minnesota today. The result will be scattered lines of heavy thunderstorms with the potential for tropical downpours…
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A steamier weekend

A steamier weekend

If you're hoping for a soaking rain, hang in there. Periods of showers and thunderstorms are expected Monday and Monday night.
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Smoky skies return, State Fair 90s ahead?

Smoky skies return, State Fair 90s ahead?

“Attention Minnesota. Our August weather daydream continues until further notice.” Yes, you too can bask under a warm August sun, bathe in balmy waters and languish in gentle summer breezes. Polar Vortex? Hah! Okay…maybe not a good idea to tempt the weather fates in Minnesota, even in usually safe mid-August. Our weather winning streak continues…
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Unprecedented all time record rain swamps Long Island

Unprecedented all time record rain swamps Long Island

If the Discovery Channel aired “Extreme Flood Week” this would be it. Monday was Detroit. The city recorded the 2nd wettest day of all time. On Tuesday, Washington D.C and Baltimore did the same. New York’s Long Island became the 3rd major metro area drenched by extreme, even unprecedented rainfall this week. Islip, New York set the…
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