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.

2015 already warmest year globally so far
Just two months after data confirmed 2014 was the warmest year on record globally we know that 2015 is off to an even warmer start than 2014 was one year ago. In fact, the first two months of 2015 are significantly warmer than January and February 2014 globally.
Spring preview ends, March reality check
It's back to March reality today as a cold front slides south through Minnesota. Temps in the week ahead return much closer to, but still mostly above, average for mid-March.
Instant May: Pushing 70 degrees Thursday
Call it May-pril. It seems we need to come up with new month names for our increasingly odd out of season weather patterns these days. Our March outlier weather winning streak continues this week.