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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.

Mild temps this weekend, with the best rain chance northwest

Mild temps this weekend, with the best rain chance northwest

After a chilly start to the day, it was a delightful Thursday afternoon across Minnesota. Temperatures were mild and humidity levels were very low. Showers and scattered thunderstorms are expected in parts of northwestern Minnesota Thursday evening and overnight Thursday night, and some of the showers and thunderstorms could spread into north-central Minnesota. Updated weather…
by Ron Trenda

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High pressure keeps us dry; frost advisory north

High pressure keeps us dry; frost advisory north

Canadian high pressure is settling in over the upper Midwest, and it’ll keep rain away for a few days. We need this time to dry out from recent rains. The heaviest rains Tuesday and Tuesday night were in a band from south-central and southeastern Minnesota into Wisconsin: The shades of red show rainfall totals from…
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Extended loveliness coming our way

Extended loveliness coming our way

Look for sunny skies and near-normal temperatures for the remainder of the week and into next week. Most high temperatures are likely to be from the upper 60s to mid 70s.
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Flooding rains for parts of southern Minn. and Wisc. overnight; drier and less humid on Wednesday

Flooding rains for parts of southern Minn. and Wisc. overnight; drier and less humid on Wednesday

It’s very wet. We had a rainy Tuesday and Tuesday evening across much of Minnesota, and the rain will continue overnight in most of the southeastern half of Minnesota and through Wisconsin. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, the rainfall total for the day was 1.10 inches at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and additional rain is…
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Tornado watch parts of southern Minnesota until 10 p.m.; flash flood watch Tuesday evening and overnight

Tornado watch parts of southern Minnesota until 10 p.m.; flash flood watch Tuesday evening and overnight

Severe thunderstorms and flooding rains are possible in parts of southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin this Tuesday evening, and the flooding rain threat will continue overnight. The Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service continues a tornado watch until 10 p.m. Tuesday evening: A tornado watch has been issued for parts of Iowa, Minnesota…
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Heavy rain at times through Tuesday night; some flash flooding likely

Heavy rain at times through Tuesday night; some flash flooding likely

While the highest flash flood potential appears to be over portions of south-central and southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, parts of the Twin Cities metro area could also see some flash flooding.
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Soggy weather arriving; flash flooding possible mainly southeastern Minnesota Tuesday-Tuesday night

Soggy weather arriving; flash flooding possible mainly southeastern Minnesota Tuesday-Tuesday night

Numerous showers have been making a slow creep generally northward across southern Minnesota on Monday afternoon.  More than a few evening barbecues in and around the Twin Cities area are likely to get dampened as we wind down the Labor Day weekend. The repeating pattern of showers and thunderstorms soaking Iowa and at times surging…
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Showers mainly southern Minnesota for Labor Day; heavy rain possible Tuesday

Showers mainly southern Minnesota for Labor Day; heavy rain possible Tuesday

Strong high pressure continues to be locked in place over the mid-Atlantic states this Monday morning. A plume of tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico is streaming clockwise around the periphery of the high, across Texas then north to Kansas and northeast across soggy Iowa to southern Wisconsin. Severe storms will be possible in…
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