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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.

A steamy Fair start, and a mixed weather bag today

A steamy Fair start, and a mixed weather bag today

If you don’t like the weather just wait 15 minutes. - Anonymous Welcome to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 Lakes and a million weather extremes. Land of Sky Blue Waters? Talk about optimism. Gray dominates the landscape today in the northeast as a swirling low pressure system lollygags over northern Wisconsin and western Lake Superior. The rest…
by Paul Huttner

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Scattered T-storms, Twin Cities top 10 ‘heat island?’

Scattered T-storms, Twin Cities top 10 ‘heat island?’

Hit or miss That’s the classic summer phrase for the often scattered thunderstorm coverage in Minnesota. Summer rain is very different spatially from more uniform stratiform winter rain and snow. This week’s weather fare features a smattering of thundershowers. Our short-term hit or miss thunder threat hangs around overnight, and generally east of the Interstate-35…
by Paul Huttner

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Stormy Monday: Heavy downpours, severe threat

Stormy Monday: Heavy downpours, severe threat

The car or train may get you into work this morning. The kayak may be the preferred mode of transport home during PM rush. A spinning low pressure system over North Dakota cuts into a tropical air mass over Minnesota today. The result will be scattered lines of heavy thunderstorms with the potential for tropical downpours…
by Paul Huttner

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A steamier weekend

A steamier weekend

If you're hoping for a soaking rain, hang in there. Periods of showers and thunderstorms are expected Monday and Monday night.
by Ron Trenda

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Smoky skies return, State Fair 90s ahead?

Smoky skies return, State Fair 90s ahead?

“Attention Minnesota. Our August weather daydream continues until further notice.” Yes, you too can bask under a warm August sun, bathe in balmy waters and languish in gentle summer breezes. Polar Vortex? Hah! Okay…maybe not a good idea to tempt the weather fates in Minnesota, even in usually safe mid-August. Our weather winning streak continues…
by Paul Huttner

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Unprecedented all time record rain swamps Long Island

Unprecedented all time record rain swamps Long Island

If the Discovery Channel aired “Extreme Flood Week” this would be it. Monday was Detroit. The city recorded the 2nd wettest day of all time. On Tuesday, Washington D.C and Baltimore did the same. New York’s Long Island became the 3rd major metro area drenched by extreme, even unprecedented rainfall this week. Islip, New York set the…
by Paul Huttner

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Perseids peak overnight, weather bliss continues

Perseids peak overnight, weather bliss continues

It’s good to feel like the Maytag Weather Repairman these days. Weather Lab window wide open. Feet up on the desk. Long naps on the Doppler. 2014 has been an arduous weather year until recently. Polar Vortex. June Monsoon. Water, water everywhere. We deserve to soak up the latest round of weather bliss this week in…
by Paul Huttner

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Rare Brooklyn dust devil dazzles

Rare Brooklyn dust devil dazzles

Dust devils are whirling columns of air that spin up from the ground up as hot air rises. I have seen dust devils rip off car ports in Arizona, and topple garbage cans sending debris around neighborhoods.
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