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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.

Hail and high water, free sauna next

Hail and high water, free sauna next

I hope you got some sleep last night. It was a loud night at the Weather Lab as hail rapped at the windows overnight. Several locations around the metro reported pea to marble-sized hail. Golf ball to tennis ball-sized hail was reported in the far west metro. Our large hail from this morning. pic.twitter.com/EjWbedOwb4 —…
by Paul Huttner

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Isolated thunder, warm and humid

Isolated thunder, warm and humid

Temperatures in the 90s are expected over southwestern Minnesota, with 80s over central Minnesota and cooler temps to the northeast.
by Ron Trenda

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Midnight thunder, sticky front arrives overnight

Midnight thunder, sticky front arrives overnight

Get ready to fire up the AC unit. An active warm front bubbles north overnight. The front marks the leading edge of a hot, sticky air mass of tropical origins. Scattered thundershowers rumble across Minnesota tonight. You’ll notice dew points rising Thursday. The latest European model guidance keeps a hot sticky air mass around through…
by Paul Huttner

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Sunny and pleasant; a warmup Thursday and Friday

Sunny and pleasant; a warmup Thursday and Friday

We could see 90s Friday in southern, central and northwestern Minnesota. High dew points could bring us some heat index values near 100 degrees over parts of southern and central Minnesota.
by Ron Trenda

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