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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.

Abbreviated summer of 2014?

Abbreviated summer of 2014?

The weather models are all over the map on precise details this week, but most agree on the general idea of temps near 80 for the metro and slightly increasing rainfall chances by the weekend.
by Paul Huttner

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Classic August weekend, wetter pattern emerges soon

Classic August weekend, wetter pattern emerges soon

Welcome to August. The Dog Days of Summer are here. It may not feel like it this year without extreme heat and humidity levels, but this first August weekend looks and feels like summer. Temperatures in the low to mid 80s and dew points in the 60s is pretty typical for early August. The lakes are…
by Paul Huttner

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Weather Twilight Zone: White sky, more whiplash ahead

Weather Twilight Zone: White sky, more whiplash ahead

Okay, this is getting just a little weird. I can’t recall a time in my life in Minnesota where we’ve seen this much wildfire smoke overhead, for this long. In Minnesota’s Crazy Weather Year of 2014, it figures this would happen during the best run of weather all year. Weather Twilight Zone It feels like we’re living in…
by Paul Huttner

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Smoke plume overhead, heavy rains on the horizon?

Smoke plume overhead, heavy rains on the horizon?

Welcome to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 Lakes and pristine deep blue summer skies. Not so much. The sky over the land of sky-tinted water is a pasty white these days. It’s like somebody took a big sheet of wax paper and pulled it across the Minnesota sky. The culprit? An elevated thick smoke plume driven by raging…
by Paul Huttner

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