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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.

Sunday warmth southern MN, snow northeast

Sunday warmth southern MN, snow northeast

Winds will be much lower today across Minnesota. Saturday morning winds gusted to 55 mph at Rochester, 53 mph at Litchfield and 52 mph at Holman Field in St Paul. The peak gust recorded at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 49 mph, at 459 am Saturday. An extensive list of Minnesota wind gusts can be found at Gusts .…
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Warmer southern MN Sunday, snow northeast

Warmer southern MN Sunday, snow northeast

The winds of Saturday were impressive!  A gust of 49 mph was measured at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at 459 am, and there were some higher gusts in the metro area.  Holman Field in St. Paul reported a gust of 52 miles per hour at 709 am, and Flying Cloud airport in Eden Prairie clocked a gust…
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Windy and cold today, warmer on Sunday

Windy and cold today, warmer on Sunday

Windows are rattling this morning over much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. A low pressure system is sitting over central Wisconsin this Saturday morning, with very strong winds wrapping around behind it. Wind gusts of 51 mph were reported in Eden Prairie (432 am) and St. Paul (505 am), and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reported a…
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Windy and cold Saturday, much nicer on Sunday

Windy and cold Saturday, much nicer on Sunday

An Alberta clipper will sweep across Minnesota overnight, and the low will be sitting over central Wisconsin by about sunrise on Saturday. It will deliver accumulating snow to northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin, where winter weather advisories are in effect. Here is a summary graphic from the Duluth office of the National Weather Service: Winter weather…
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Windy and colder through Saturday, warmer Sunday

Windy and colder through Saturday, warmer Sunday

It’s April Fool’s Day, but this forecast will be free of jokes, pranks or outlandish claims. It would be hard to forecast something that we’ve never seen in the Twin Cities anyway.  We’ve been as warm as 84 degrees on April 1 (last year) and as cold as 9 degrees (1975). In 2002, 4.6 inches of snow…
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