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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.

Dog days: A shot at 90 degrees

Dog days: A shot at 90 degrees

Air conditioning units buzz the next few days as temps make a run at 90 in what's likely the hottest stretch of the summer. Relief arrives next week as temperatures appear to head toward the 70s.
by Paul Huttner

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Perseid sky show may dazzle, heat builds

Perseid sky show may dazzle, heat builds

Temperatures and humidity are on the rise this week as southwest winds kick in at the surface behind a departing high pressure cell. Scattered thunderstorms reappear by early Thursday morning.
by Paul Huttner

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Taiwan tornado is terrifying weather video

This dashcam video during Typhoon Soudelor in Taiwan captures the instant insanity as a tornado embedded within the typhoon sweeps over the vehicle, and sweeps the white van in front of the camera into the vortex.
by Paul Huttner

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Summer lite

Summer lite

If you like it a bit warmer, hang in there. High temperatures are expected to trend upward on Wednesday, and we could see some upper 80s by Thursday.
by Ron Trenda

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Thursday thunder threat

Thursday thunder threat

Our next low pressure wave rolls in from the Dakotas Thursday. Look for a gradual increase in scattered showers and storms moving from west to east. The system timing appears to have slowed a bit, pushing the best chance for metro storms into Thursday night and the wee small hours of Friday morning.
by Paul Huttner

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