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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.

Fresh Front: Less humid, NWS upgrades Doppler

Fresh Front: Less humid, NWS upgrades Doppler

I hope you passed the first AC test this season. You may now give your AC unit a rest for a couple for days. A fresh north breeze is pumping in a more comfortable less humid air mass. We’ll all be breathing a little easier Wednesday. The source region for this delicious early summer air mass?…
by Paul Huttner

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Summery preview for Memorial Day Weekend

Summery preview for Memorial Day Weekend

For once it appears the weather stars have aligned for Minnesota on a big holiday weekend. The weather and the calendar are mostly in sync this weekend. The first taste of summer weather has arrived just in time as swarms of Minnesotans escape north for the for Memorial Day Weekend. This weekend feels more like…
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Tonka reaches highest level in nearly 12 years

Tonka reaches highest level in nearly 12 years

One look at the popular west Twin Cities metro lake they call Tonka these days and you can see there’s more than enough water to go around. My eyes can get buggy looking through the lake level data for the past few years, but by my read Monday’s multi-inch deluge pushed Lake Minnetonka to the highest level…
by Paul Huttner

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Weather bliss heading into Memorial Day Weekend

Weather bliss heading into Memorial Day Weekend

Tears of weather joy would be excused after the winter we’ve just endured in Minnesota. There are also a few of my friends and neighbors that are a little leery of the turn of nice weather. Is it safe? is it really here to stay? Yes, it looks like the weather tides have finally turned…
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Insurance company sues Chicago for climate change

Insurance company sues Chicago for climate change

Farmers Insurance is suing the city of Chicago and nearly 200 Chicago area communities for allegedly failing to adequately prepare for the impacts of climate change and an increase in extreme weather.
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May Monsoon: 3rd wettest year on record so far

May Monsoon: 3rd wettest year on record so far

It seems Minnesota has two settings on the weather switch. On/Off. Weather Whiplash. All or nothing. Flood to Flash Drought. We eased into winter last year with increasing drought across Minnesota. Then the weather switch flipped “on” again. Polar Vortex. Snowmageddon. Spring deluge. May Monsoon. Now the Twin Cities and much of central and eastern…
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