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.

August 26, 2014 7:03 AM

Weather chatter: winter outlook and tropical storms

There has been a blizzard of banter of late about the Farmer’s Almanac winter outlook for 2014/2015. The claim being that the forecast published in the Almanac last fall was quite accurate with regard to the miserably cold winter in Minnesota. Last winters outlook from the Farmers Almanac: Compare their outlook to the one issued…

by Craig Edwards

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August 26, 2014 3:17 AM

Minnesota stays cool; midweek rain for southern areas

Sunshine will make it feel pretty fine this afternoon, although temperatures in the 60s in northern Minnesota are well below normal for late August.

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August 25, 2014 12:42 PM

September-like air mass; monitoring rain chances

The weather maps are giving a hint of the end of summer. Sept. 1 marks the first day of the meteorological autumn, but until then let’s make the most of what’s left of August. You surely noticed the big drop in dew points and the comfortable relative humidity this afternoon! Temperatures had the feel of…

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August 25, 2014 7:06 AM

Minnesota weather brings relief; Pacific hurricane expected to weaken

A cool front moved through Minnesota in the past 18 hours lowering the dew points and ushering in a refreshing change in air masses. At 11 a.m. Monday, temperatures ranged from a cool 55 at Thief River Falls to 79 in Winona, in southeast Minnesota. Cloud cover will likely inhibit a climb in temperatures in…

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August 25, 2014 2:43 AM

Cooler and drier after a stormy Sunday

Very warm and humid conditions over Minnesota on Sunday ignited strong to severe thunderstorms in the afternoon. A couple of thunderstorms north of St. Cloud showed strong rotation on the Doppler radar and prompted tornado warnings from the National Weather Service. The storm report from the National Weather Service includes word of a brief…

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August 22, 2014 12:24 PM

Sunday heat and storms

Get ready for a summery weekend, and what may be a hot and stormy day in the Twin Cities Sunday. Our high dew point “free sauna” air mass lingers this weekend. That moisture is fuel for scattered thunderstorms, which will again roam Minnesota this weekend. The most concentrated thunderstorm action should favor western and northern Minnesota. With tropical…

by Paul Huttner

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August 21, 2014 12:32 PM

Free sauna continues, mixed thundery weekend

How about those Vikings? Yes we are living in a weather sauna these days. Our latest tropical warm front has brought storms, and a tropically humid air mass with dew points pushing into the low 70s. Thankfully a partially busted forecast for clouds limited temps in the metro Thursday afternoon, even as 90 degree heat…

by Paul Huttner

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August 21, 2014 2:07 AM

AM thunder, PM sauna, heat advisory issued

One of the beauties of tracking weather systems is that until they develop they’re like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. Case in point, late August warm fronts in Minnesota. They often bubble north at night, and fire so called “nocturnal” thunderstorms. These storms like to develop as…

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August 20, 2014 3:50 AM

Stormy then steamy Fair opener; Cristobal lurks

Batten down the tent strings and fire up the the misters at the Great Minnesota Get Together. It’s going to be a potentially wet and sweaty start to the 2014 Minnesota State Fair. I hope you will join me, Kerri Miller and University of St. Thomas climate change expert John Abraham for a special one-hour Climate Cast…

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August 19, 2014 12:20 PM

Changeable skies, TS Cristoabl in Gulf next week?

Mixed weather fare Our weather forecast the next few days looks a lot like food choices at the Minnesota State Fair. A new menu item is only a few minutes away. Over the next 72 hours Minnesota savors a weather smorgasbord. Our buffet features fog, sun, thunder, rain and tropical humidity. Throw in a September breezes…

by Paul Huttner

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