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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.

Bizarre: Likely earliest tornado on record for Minnesota

Bizarre: Likely earliest tornado on record for Minnesota

Another day, another bizarre out of season Minnesota weather record. If confirmed tornado near Zimmerman, Princeton is earliest tornado on record in MN. #mnwx pic.twitter.com/3EpKgRsEyr — MPR Weather (@MPRweather) March 7, 2017 This one appears to be the earliest tornado on record for the state of Minnesota. Various Twitter and Instagram accounts posted damage reports…
by Paul Huttner

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April in March

April in March

We’re getting used to warm weather. During several days of record and near record warmth in February, we jettisoned our mittens, gloves and warm coats. When highs dipped just a few degrees below normal this past week, it felt like a wintry slap in the face. We’re back to warm temperatures this Sunday and Monday. Two…
by Ron Trenda

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Weekend warmup, but breezy

Weekend warmup, but breezy

Minnesotans know that the month of March is often a temperature rollercoaster. Twin Cities high temperatures on Thursday and Friday were in the lower 30s, which is a few degrees below normal. Highs will rebound into the 40s Saturday afternoon over much of southern and central Minnesota. Sunday’s highs will be even warmer, with many spots in central and…
by Ron Trenda

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One cool day; weekend warmup

One cool day; weekend warmup

No big storms are in our forecast the next few days, but periods of light snow are possible over western Minnesota this afternoon, and over eastern Minnesota this evening and tonight.
by Ron Trenda

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Chillier Thursday; April-like weekend coming

Chillier Thursday; April-like weekend coming

Forecast models continue to predict much warmer temperatures for our weekend. Snow-covered areas might struggle a bit to warm quickly, but areas with bare ground will respond nicely to the southerly flow.
by Bill Endersen

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Cooler Thursday; February extended our record warm streak

Cooler Thursday; February extended our record warm streak

Our snow missed the February deadline. The snow that blanketed our Twin Cities metro area lawns Wednesday morning accumulated after midnight Tuesday night. That means that it counts as March snow, not February snow, in the monthly snow tallies. The official Twin Cities February snowfall total, as measured at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, stayed at .3″. That .3″ snow total…
by Ron Trenda

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