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.

Update on shower and thunder chances; solar eclipse weather
A cool front will move slowly through Minnesota Sunday afternoon and evening, then it’s expected to stall out near the Iowa border Sunday night. Scattered showers and a few thunderstorms are possible over central and southern Minnesota Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening and Sunday night. In the Twin Cities metro area, scattered showers and an isolated…
A very nice Saturday; rain chance for some on Sunday
Some of us saw dense fog early Saturday morning. Here’s a look at the fog that remained at mid-morning Saturday, via the new GOES-16 weather satellite: Great morning shot of river valley fog from GOES-16. Look at that detail! pic.twitter.com/OZUIWakN9N — NWS La Crosse (@NWSLaCrosse) August 19, 2017 You can see the fog in the…
Periods of morning rain; chance of an afternoon shower
It was a wild Wednesday evening in southern Minnesota, with multiple reports of tornado touchdowns. This tornado was spotted near Nicollet in Nicollet county Wednesday evening: Nicollet, MN. Credit Mike Slater.@mark_tarello @DDahlkstp @NovakWeather @BoKnowsWeather @MPRweather @ian_leonard pic.twitter.com/Txx9pUKnIu — Greg Hanson (@HansonOutdoors) August 16, 2017 Here’s a summary of tornado reports from late Wednesday afternoon and…