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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.

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Sunshine today, Friday flakes; wet on Christmas

Sunshine today, Friday flakes; wet on Christmas

Be ready for anything when it comes to weather in Minnesota. Other than a direct hit from a hurricane, we see it all. Warmth and sunshine are on tap for today, and our high temps will be unusually warm, with upper 30s over much of central and southern Minnesota: Our average high temperature is only 25…
by Ron Trenda

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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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Utilities embracing wind power

Utilities embracing wind power

Wind power gaining steam.
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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