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.

Showers, Stones and Mr. Jimmy
“You can’t always get what you want.” – Mick Jagger But if the weather maps verify, Rolling Stones fans might get what we need Wednesday night. Wednesday night’s Stones show at The Bank? It’s literally a roll of the tumblin’ weather dice. Most models favor a break in rainfall for the Twin Cities Wednesday evening. But…
Scattered rain today, cooler weekend
Out instant summer preview fades Friday as a cold front slides across Minnesota from the west. Scattered showers and thunderstorms become more numerous in the Twin Cities as Friday progresses.
Shades of summer today, rain overnight
More hazy sun and temps in the 80s in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota. The rain holds off until after midnight before sweeping through southern Minnesota overnight into Friday.
Summer arrives early this year?
It’s not your imagination. It feels more like July out there than late May this afternoon. Evidence of an early spring and summer in Minnesota in 2015? By some measures Spring 2015 arrived 3 to 7 weeks earlier vs. last year. Submitted for your approval. March 15 – First 70 degree temp in 2015 at MSP Airport…