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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.

Historic blizzard winding down slowly

Historic blizzard winding down slowly

Ah, the joy of removing a foot-plus of dense snow with ice and slush at the bottom. I hope that your back handled the task better than mine did. This storm produced so much snow for several reasons: It has been a huge and very powerful mid-latitude cyclone It tapped into a massive plume of…
by Bill Endersen

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April snowfall record falls; snow tapers off Sunday evening in metro

April snowfall record falls; snow tapers off Sunday evening in metro

If you’re going to have a lot of April snow, you might as well have enough to set a record. That’s what happened in the Twin Cities metro area this weekend. The snow total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from late Friday though 7 a.m. Sunday was 12.9 inches: Storm Total Snowfall from April 13…
by Ron Trenda

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A few more inches of snow; chilly winds as we shovel and plow

A few more inches of snow; chilly winds as we shovel and plow

The snow isn’t over, but snow amounts will be much lighter today in most of Minnesota. Yesterday’s official snow total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 11.1 inches, which gaves us an official Twin Cities storm total of 12.2 inches, with more snow on the way. ______________________________________________________________________________ Update:  another seven- tenths of an inch at MSP…
by Ron Trenda

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Epic April snow, with strong winds; blizzard warning includes Twin Cities

Epic April snow, with strong winds; blizzard warning includes Twin Cities

Wow, this snow is something else! Twin Cities weather records show that the highest single day snowfall total in April was 13.6 inches, on April 14, 1983. Maybe it’s appropriate that we were already seeing 8 and 9 inch storm totals in the Twin Cities metro area as of 5 p.m. on April 14th this…
by Ron Trenda

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Howling winds and heavy snow; blizzard warning includes Twin Cities

Howling winds and heavy snow; blizzard warning includes Twin Cities

Travel will be very hazardous to nearly impossible over much of the southern half of Minnesota and western Wisconsin the remainder of this afternoon and this Saturday night. Blizzard warnings have been expanded to include the entire Twin Cities metro area: Details of the metro area portion of the blizzard warning, which continues until 7…
by Ron Trenda

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