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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.

Smoke plume overhead, heavy rains on the horizon?

Smoke plume overhead, heavy rains on the horizon?

Welcome to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 Lakes and pristine deep blue summer skies. Not so much. The sky over the land of sky-tinted water is a pasty white these days. It’s like somebody took a big sheet of wax paper and pulled it across the Minnesota sky. The culprit? An elevated thick smoke plume driven by raging…
by Paul Huttner

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Weather Whiplash 2014? Rivers and lakes plummeting

Weather Whiplash 2014? Rivers and lakes plummeting

It’s amazing how quickly we can go from flood to emerging drought in Minnesota. Just one month ago, Minnesotans cleaning out flooded basements, overflowing rivers and lakes and roads underwater was the lead on your local newscast. Fast forward to late July and many locations can’t buy a drop of rain. Shades of brown on lawns popping up. Rivers…
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Summery Saturday, Doppler mayfly attacks continue

Summery Saturday, Doppler mayfly attacks continue

Saturday brings a true summer day to Minnesota with temps well into the upper 80s, and dew points in the sticky 60s. The next Canadian cool front brings scattered showers and more free AC Sunday into next week.
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