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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.

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Chilly weekend; Several rivers are at or near major flood stage

Chilly weekend; Several rivers are at or near major flood stage

It’ll feel more like March than April this weekend. We take a look at temperature trends into this coming week and we also have updated river levels.
by Ron Trenda

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Chilly weekend; Update on our rising river levels

Chilly weekend; Update on our rising river levels

Some of us will see flakes at times Friday night and early Saturday. We have an update on that, plus when you can expect milder temps to return. We also have an update on rising river levels.
by Ron Trenda

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Cold, breezy with scattered snow and rain showers Friday

Cold, breezy with scattered snow and rain showers Friday

Snow and rain showers will continue to rotate around a slow moving low across northern Minnesota. Temperatures will remain cold in the 30s and low 40s with blustery northwest winds at 10-20 mph. The chill persists into the weekend.
by Sven Sundgaard

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Heavy snow for northern Minnesota into Friday; rain, snow showers south

Heavy snow for northern Minnesota into Friday; rain, snow showers south

A wintry blast of heavy snow and strong winds will spread into northern Minnesota Thursday afternoon and linger into Friday. We have an update on snow totals plus the rain elsewhere in Minnesota that will transition to flakes by Friday.
by Ron Trenda

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Snow north, rain showers south; it's now Duluth's snowiest season ever

Snow north, rain showers south; it's now Duluth's snowiest season ever

Rain, ice and snow continue to rotate around our slow moving storm system Thursday. Snow accumulations will be confined to the northern half of Minnesota with mainly rain showers south. More snow showers, mixed with rain, south will persist into Friday.
by Sven Sundgaard

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Rain, thunder, ice, snow through Thursday

Rain, thunder, ice, snow through Thursday

Our next storm rolls in through Thursday into Friday.
by Paul Huttner

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Next storm brings more rain south and heavy snow and ice north

Next storm brings more rain south and heavy snow and ice north

It’s awkward to talk about “winter” storms as we move deeper into spring, but winter best describes the type of weather that will occur across the Northland Thursday and Friday.
by Paul Huttner

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Waves of moisture into Friday; snow for northern Minnesota

Waves of moisture into Friday; snow for northern Minnesota

The first of multiple rounds of precipitation is moving across the region. We’ll see somewhat of a midday break before more showers develop in southern Minnesota and fill in, moving north. A wintry mix will become mostly snow in northern Minnesota Thursday.
by Sven Sundgaard

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Rain, thunder, snow for swaths of Minnesota Wednesday through Friday

The first wave rolls through southwest Minnesota around and after midnight. Rain and embedded thunder likely arrive in the greater Twin Cities area from around 4 a.m.
by Paul Huttner

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