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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.

Stormy weekend: Heavy rain and slight severe threat

Stormy weekend: Heavy rain and slight severe threat

Welcome to Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Weather Extremes. Will somebody please tell the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast models that the vast majority of Minnesotans like nice weekends? Especially “graduation party” weekends? Father’s Day? I’ve been kicking the Weather Lab computers and pleading with the Doppler all week to try and divert our incoming…
by Paul Huttner

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North Korean leader warns weather forecasters

North Korean leader warns weather forecasters

How would you like to be a meteorologist in North Korea these days? North Korean leader North Korean leader Kim Jong Un payed a visit recently to the Hydro-meteorological Service in Pyongyang. His message? Stop getting the forecasts wrong. In a hard to decipher story from North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, photos show a red-faced Kim appearing to…
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Tracking overnight storms, gusty and cooler Thursday

Tracking overnight storms, gusty and cooler Thursday

The Twin Cities touched the 80 degree mark for the 10th time this year Wednesday. Yes, it felt like summer out there. The radar scope seems to agree that summer weather is in the air. The Doppler glows with scattered storms overnight, and a blustery and cooler Thursday awaits behind the front triggering the storms.…
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Easing into summer, drier forecast this week?

Easing into summer, drier forecast this week?

Tuesday’s weather reminds me of that Old Milwaukee beer slogan of yesteryear. “It doesn’t get any better than this.” Our picture perfect air mass lingers into early Wednesday, with a little added heat. Temperatures crack 80 degrees in the Twin Cities metro area for just the 10th time this year Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday’s incoming front…
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June icebergs still roaming Lake Superior

June icebergs still roaming Lake Superior

Picture perfect weather holds through most of Wednesday for the metro, but the next front pushes rain and thunder into northern Minnesota tomorrow. The metro will likely stay rain free until Wednesday night.
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