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 warmup coming for the weekend
By the time the actual weekend rolls around, there will be a chance of widely scattered thunderstorms on Saturday and a better chance on Sunday.
A record wet month; now a cool breeze from Canada
The numbers coming out of the Minnesota State Climatology Office, prepared by averaging monthly rainfall totals from around the state, indicate that this June was the wettest June on record for the state of Minnesota. Heavy rainfalls were so frequent and widespread that June monthly records were set across Minnesota from Luverne on the Iowa…
Play ball? Forecasting the weather at Target Field
Midway  through my fifth season as the on-site meteorologist at Target Field, I can attest that the game is meant to be played outdoors.  It encourages families to be weather aware and gives fans, young and old, the opportunity to observe nature.  Get your eyes off the iPhone! Previous to the start of a home…
Rivers slowly receding; a cool start to July
Clusters of thunderstorms roamed the state on Saturday with rainfall amounts of over 2 inches in  portions of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Amounts were lighter in the southwest metro, where my rain gauge collected less than a half inch on Saturday afternoon in Eden Prairie. There is some positive news on the state of…