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.

April 25, 2014 12:18 PM

Cutoff Low: Cooler wetter pattern now, milder by next weekend?

The system pushes an impressive rain shield back into Minnesota Saturday night and Sunday. Get used this one, it may hang around most of next week.

by Paul Huttner

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April 24, 2014 12:22 PM

Only in Minnesota, tornado drill sirens and heavy snow at the same time

Welcome to Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Weather Possibilities. At the same time. Thursday’s featured weathertainment? Heavy snow falling in northeast Minnesota while tornado drill sirens wail in seasonally confused disapproval. Hopefully we all got our severe weather ducks in a row this week. For the Arrowhead, it’s one more trip to the garage to dig out Read more →

by Paul Huttner

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April 24, 2014 3:49 AM

Rain, sirens, sun, more rain, then 70s return with May?

Our wide variety of weather continues across Minnesota, and there's something in the forecast to please every Minnesotan.

by Paul Huttner

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April 23, 2014 12:35 PM

Cool wet Thursday, sirens will sound for tornado drill

You may want to consider the canoe — or the ark — for your Thursday morning commute southeast of the metro. Our incoming April rainstorm is feeding waves of showers with some embedded thundershowers sweeping across Minnesota overnight into Thursday morning. Locally heavy downpours will roll through some areas overnight and just in time for Read more →

by Paul Huttner

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April 23, 2014 3:24 AM

Spring soaker rolls in, potential 1 inch rains, statewide tornado drill tomorrow

Minnesota thirsty soils, trees, lawns and fields are about to get a much needed soaking.

by Paul Huttner

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April 22, 2014 12:54 PM

Spring soaker on the way, Dandelion Watch issued

The Green Wave is coming to Minnesota. Our spring warm-up has already melted snow and lake ice around Minnesota. Now the higher daytime temperatures are warming soils and triggering plants and trees to start to leaf out. A good soaking rain is the next trigger, and you may notice some new flowers sprouting up as Read more →

by Paul Huttner

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April 22, 2014 3:46 AM

Soaking rains tomorrow, Lake Minnetonka adopts new ice out definition in 2014

Temps push into the 60s today across southern Minnesota with 50s up north. The now intense sunshine is much better at heating up the atmosphere over Minnesota that it was even a few weeks ago.

by Paul Huttner

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April 21, 2014 1:01 PM

Severe Weather Awareness Week: How many ‘tornado warning minutes’ each year?

Welcome to severe weather awareness week in Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is usually the first week every year when we babble about risk areas, sirens and funnel clouds. Last year in late April? A wintry hangover had us fending off the next incoming dump of snow, and borderline abusive and threatening emails from disgruntled weather Read more →

by Paul Huttner

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April 21, 2014 3:46 AM

April showers give way to dry winds today, mid-week soaker ahead?

Our wet morning gives way to an increasingly dry windy afternoon across Minnesota. As a cold front sweep through from the northwest, winds kick up for 20 to as high as 35 mph across the state.

by Paul Huttner

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April 18, 2014 1:06 PM

Spring is on its way — really!

Sad to say, but winter has not given up completely. A compact weather system will spread rain, snow and an icy mix of freezing rain and sleet across northern Minnesota tonight and into Saturday morning.

by Bill Endersen

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