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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.

First 60 Tuesday, El Nino drought concerns

First 60 Tuesday, El Nino drought concerns

One step outside Monday afternoon and you can feel spring is in the air. The sound of gutters draining the last few snow piles. Unfamiliar bird songs. Squirrels darting across snow free lawns. Neighbors you haven't seen in five months.
by Paul Huttner

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Spring forward: 50 degree warm front ahead

Spring forward: 50 degree warm front ahead

Over the next week we'll see some things in Minnesota we haven't seen in months. Bare grass again. Puddles in the streets. Dazed neighbors with pasty white legs strolling by in shorts. Strange birds in your backyard. Yes folks we made it through another Minnesota winter. Welcome to early spring in Minnesota.
by Paul Huttner

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Warmer air 24 hours away

Warmer air 24 hours away

The warm up kicks in Friday as temps push well into the 30s. Pacific warmth builds this weekend, then peaks Tuesday with warmth pulsing into the Upper Midwest.
by Paul Huttner

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Climate Cast: Drought a factor in Syrian conflict

Climate Cast: Drought a factor in Syrian conflict

To some climate change seems a far off distant future concept. Not to US military and intelligence agencies. A growing body of evidence suggests climate change and prolonged drought helped sew the seeds of conflict in Syria and western Iraq. Even small shifts in climate in marginal climate zones can have disproportionate impacts.
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