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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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Showers rotate through Minnesota Friday; brighter weekend

Showers rotate through Minnesota Friday; brighter weekend

Scattered showers will continue Friday for much of Minnesota with peeks of sunshine in between. High temperatures will be cooler, in the low to mid 70s statewide. Saturday will be drier and Sunday will yield brighter skies.
by Sven Sundgaard

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Lots of clouds, scattered showers Friday; drier through the weekend

Lots of clouds, scattered showers Friday; drier through the weekend

Clouds and showers will continue to rotate around an area of low pressure moving across Minnesota Friday. Temperatures will be cooler with the cloud cover, primarily in the low to mid 70s for afternoon highs. The weekend should be gradually drier and brighter.
by Sven Sundgaard

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Northern lights and lightning create a show

Northern lights and lightning create a show

Parts of Minnesota’s North Shore saw enough breaks in the clouds to see both lightning and northern lights at once overnight Wednesday night.
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More rain Thursday into Friday; cooler Friday and Saturday

More rain Thursday into Friday; cooler Friday and Saturday

After some incredible isolated downpours Wednesday, Thursday will bring more showers and thunder, especially later in the day. Clouds and occasional showers will keep temperatures cooler Friday.
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Scattered showers, storms late Thursday into Friday

Scattered showers, storms late Thursday into Friday

We’ll see an increase in the number and frequency of showers and thunderstorms across much of Minnesota late Thursday. We’ll still squeeze out a high temperature near 80 in the south between showers with peeks of sun.
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