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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.

Nice Sunday, rainy start to week

Nice Sunday, rainy start to week

Our Mother’s Day weather will be very agreeable. You can expect plenty of sunshine, with light winds. There will be some haze in the air, and possibly some patchy smoke at times. High temperatures will be a few degrees above normal in most areas: Many spots in the Twin Cities will warm into the mid…
by Ron Trenda

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Smoky start, cooler this weekend

After a record high temp of 92 yesterday in the Twin Cities, you knew it had to get cooler. Highs this weekend will be closer to our normal highs for early May. Smoke this morning Smoke from a wildfire in northern Minnesota and the ongoing Canadian wildfires has spread over eastern Minnesota and the Twin Cities this…
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Chance Friday evening t-storms, cooler weekend

Chance Friday evening t-storms, cooler weekend

We did it! The temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport hit 90 degrees by mid-afternoon today, and it may get even warmer. We topped the previous record high for May 6th of 89 degrees. Fire danger Because it is very warm, with low humidity levels and strong winds, there is a very high fire danger this afternoon and early evening.…
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Friday fire danger, heat and thunder

Friday fire danger, heat and thunder

Instant July Seasons in Minnesota are relative. The flip of an atmospheric switch brings frost, or summer heat this time of year. Temperatures soared to 93 degrees in Hallock in the far northwest corner of Minnesota Thursday afternoon. Bank thermometers searched long lost number combinations as they flashed 90+ degrees in Fargo, Grand Forks and Thief…
by Paul Huttner

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Warming trend

Warming trend

Scattered showers and even an isolated thunderstorm are possible Friday evening. There could be an isolated shower over southern Minnesota very early Saturday morning, but most of the coming weekend should be dry.
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