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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.

Solar cycle’s biggest sunspot aims toward earth

Solar cycle’s biggest sunspot aims toward earth

It's called sunspot 2192. It's way bigger than earth and it's moving around to the earth facing side of the sun. It's also increasingly likely to unleash a massive X-class solar flare in the next few days.
by Paul Huttner

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Colorful GoPro ride in the trees

Colorful GoPro ride in the trees

What does MPR Education Reporter Tim Post do when he has some extra time on his hands? He takes a really long 20 foot pole and straps on a GoPro camera and sticks it up in the trees. The result? A stunningly colorful ride through peak autumn color in the Twin Cities. Two questions: What do…
by Paul Huttner

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Rare sunset solar eclipse Thursday

Rare sunset solar eclipse Thursday

The second eclipse this month will put on a sky show over most of North America Thursday. This one is a partial solar eclipse, and a rare sunset eclipse for Minnesota and the Mississippi Valley.
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Football weather, Indian Summer and a Halloween chill?

Football weather, Indian Summer and a Halloween chill?

Minnesota weather is like lying on a beach at the ocean. You never know what the next wave will wash in. You may be blissfully sunning at low tide, and swamped in pounding surf at high tide. Air masses sweep freely across Minnesota in October. Sunny and 72 one day. Steel gray skies with a raw northwest wind…
by Paul Huttner

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Watch it live: Gonzalo slams Bermuda

Watch it live: Gonzalo slams Bermuda

"Dangerous damaging and life-threatening." That's how NOAA's National Hurricane Center describes Hurricane Gonzalo as it puts a direct hit on Bermuda. The storm is packing sustained 125 mph winds just before landfall.
by Paul Huttner

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NOAA Winter Outlook: Partly mild for Minnesota?

NOAA Winter Outlook: Partly mild for Minnesota?

NOAA's Winter Outlook is in for the coming cold season. The odds still favor a developing El Nino, but NOAA is pulling it's punches on fully committing to a mild winter for the Upper Midwest.
by Paul Huttner

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Best day of fall 2014?

Best day of fall 2014?

After a cool football weather weekend, temps begin to slowly moderate again next week. Another shot of Indian summer by next Friday?
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Pushing 70 Thursday, hints of a Halloween chill?

Pushing 70 Thursday, hints of a Halloween chill?

Indian Summer is on it’s way Cool at night – and hot all day Ain’t no black clouds filled with rain Santa Ana wind blew them all to Maine -Poco “Indian Summer” Indian Summer 2014 The name Indian Summer conjurers up thoughts of sunny warm days and crisp starry nights. For just a few fleeting October…
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