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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.

Storm delivers heavy snow north, messy metro mix

Storm delivers heavy snow north, messy metro mix

Well this is fun! The season’s first winter storm dumped heavy snow as expected from the northern Twin Cities metro to St, Cloud and along Interstate-35 toward Hinckley. It also threw the central and southern metro a curve with less snow than forecast, but made up for that in impact with a mix of sleet and freezing…
by Paul Huttner

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Monday snow mostly on track, 6″ to 14″ metro range

Monday snow mostly on track, 6″ to 14″ metro range

I noticed a lot more gray hair in the Weather Lab mirror tonight. After three days of basically rock solid forecast model runs suggesting the same storm track and heavy snowfall distribution, some of Sunday evening’s model runs showed a distinct northward jog in the expected storm track. As if we needed another reminder on why forecasting snowfall…
by Paul Huttner

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Travel likely to be difficult Monday afternoon as winter storm arrives

Travel likely to be difficult Monday afternoon as winter storm arrives

The advertised snowstorm will get geared up later tonight.  Minnesota and Wisconsin are likely to get dumped on. Some locations, as Paul has noted, are expected to accumulate more than a foot of snow by daybreak on Tuesday. The low pressure that will generate heavy snowfall at the rate of more than an inch per…
by Craig Edwards

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Metro Winter Storm Warning: 6″ to 12″+ totals likely

Metro Winter Storm Warning: 6″ to 12″+ totals likely

For those looking for an escape hatch from heavy snow in Minnesota Monday, Saturday evening’s forecast model runs appear to have slammed the door on any extended fall fantasy. Winter is coming fast and hard to Minnesota this November. Most of the major models have come into agreement as of Saturday night. The only remaining question may…
by Paul Huttner

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Winter Storm Watch: Growing chance of first big snow Monday

Winter Storm Watch: Growing chance of first big snow Monday

Here we go Minnesota! It’s baaaaack. As expected, The Twin Cities NWS posted the first Winter Storm Watch of the season Saturday afternoon. Confidence is still low on the precise storm track and location of the heaviest snowfall bands, but there is a growing chance for the first major winter storm of the season in…
by Paul Huttner

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You be the forecaster: How much snow Monday?

You be the forecaster: How much snow Monday?

I'll post more about the inbound snow system through the weekend, but I'd like to make this post available as an opportunity for you arm chair and professional meteorologists out there to place your forecast bets on the eventual storm track and snowfall totals for Monday's system.
by Paul Huttner

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