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.

September 24, 2014 3:32 AM

Octoberish today, summer breezes return tomorrow

Temps push back into the 70s tomorrow, and will soar to 80 degrees Friday and Saturday in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota.

by Paul Huttner

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September 23, 2014 1:05 PM

More dry heat is coming

A few widely scattered showers are possible on Wednesday, mainly in the east. Then the warming trend will commence again.

by Bill Endersen

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September 23, 2014 2:55 AM

Chance for showers later today and tonight

Clouds will begin to thicken and showers are expected to travel from west to east through central and southern Minnesota.

by Craig Edwards

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September 22, 2014 12:55 PM

Warm weather this week, but dwindling daylight

Weather this week should be warm and mostly dry with temperatures running significantly above normal statewide, more like early September than the last full week of the month.

by Bill Endersen

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September 22, 2014 2:46 AM

Minnesota’s in for a nice transition to autumn

A weather system is expected to swing through southern Minnesota on Tuesday afternoon and night and may dump a quarter inch of rain in southwest and south central Minnesota.

by Craig Edwards

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September 18, 2014 12:40 PM

Forecast trending warmer; August warmest on record

The latest weather maps seem to confirm what I have been thinking most of this week. September is ready to go out on a summery note in Minnesota.

by Paul Huttner

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September 18, 2014 3:06 AM

Summer comeback ahead

Overall the weather pattern looks fairly nice the next week or so. More summer than fall. More days in the 70s that 60s.

by Paul Huttner

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September 17, 2014 12:26 PM

Cooler by the lake: Big temperature swing across Minn.

Overall, the next week looks more like summer over most of Minnesota -- seven of the next eight days could reach the 70-degree mark in the Twin Cities.

by Paul Huttner

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September 17, 2014 7:02 AM

Climate Cast: Is climate change destabilizing Iraq?

The link between what we see as news events and climate change is often obscure. Does a particular extreme weather event, flood, or drought have it’s roots in climate changes? That question is increasingly being asked as the worst drought on record unfolds in California, even as extreme rainfall events set all time rainfall records in nearby Phoenix.…

by Paul Huttner

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September 17, 2014 3:28 AM

Forecast: More summer than fall

The rest of this week looks slightly more like summer than fall. Scattered showers creep into the forecast as early as Friday morning as a warm front bubbles through.

by Paul Huttner

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