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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.

Happy winter solstice; Santa may need “Rain-deer”

Happy winter solstice; Santa may need “Rain-deer”

Happy winter solstice 2016! Welcome to the shortest day and longest night of the year in Minnesota. Growing daylight Daylight grows ever so slowly starting Wednesday in the northern hemisphere. Minnesota gains nearly an hour of daylight in the next month. We add nearly 7 hours of daylight by the summer solstice on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:24…
by Paul Huttner

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Warm pattern returns, tracking Christmas rain

Warm pattern returns, tracking Christmas rain

“The trend is your friend.” – Retired MPR meteorologist Craig Edwards My former partner in weather crime words of weather wisdom ring true once again as we move through Christmas week into late December. Minnesota’s string of 13 colder than average days ends today. Our weather pattern returns to the base state of the past 15 months, warmer…
by Paul Huttner

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Chilly recap; warming trend starts on Monday

Chilly recap; warming trend starts on Monday

It has to get warmer. Our Sunday featured morning lows in the 20s below zero, with a few spots dipping beyond 30 below. Here are some of the coldest Sunday morning temperatures, as listed by the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service: Public Information Statement National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 916 AM CST Sun Dec…
by Ron Trenda

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Sunny but very cold; warmer this coming week

Sunny but very cold; warmer this coming week

We’re running out of ways to say cold! Most Minnesotans woke up to temperatures in the 20s below zero today. Winds were just strong enough to create wind chill temps in the -30 to -45 range for most areas. At 9 a.m., the official temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 20 below zero. This is…
by Ron Trenda

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Cold overnight and Sunday; wind chill warning

Cold overnight and Sunday; wind chill warning

Brrrrrrr! Minnesota will see low temperatures in the 20s below zero early Sunday morning. Wind will combine with our very cold temperatures to give us dangerous wind chills Saturday night and Sunday morning. Many spots will see wind chill readings in the -35 to -45 degree range. Some spots in western Minnesota could see wind chill temps close to -50. Here’s…
by Ron Trenda

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