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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.

Warming trend; Minnesota State Fair weather history

Warming trend; Minnesota State Fair weather history

Our weekend will end with some pleasant weather! We’ll enjoy Sunday sunshine, along with scattered clouds. Highs will be mostly in the lower 70s, with some mid 70s possible over southwestern Minnesota: Some spots in the Twin Cities metro area could reach 73 degrees, but that’s still well below our average high temp of 80 degrees for…
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Some Sunday sun, but cool

Some Sunday sun, but cool

Our Saturday high temperature was only 68 degrees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. That is 12 degrees below our average high for August 20th of 80 degrees. It was our coldest high temperature since June 1, when we topped out at 67 degrees! Temps rebound A high pressure system will bring us some Sunday sunshine,…
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Periods of rain today; some Sunday sunshine

Periods of rain today; some Sunday sunshine

I’m wondering who might be enjoying our rainy Saturday. Minnesota farmers don’t need additional rain right now. Golf courses are lush from tee to green, and lawns aren’t parched. Maybe shopping malls and movie theaters will see a spike in business. We’ll have periods of rain today over most of Minnesota and Wisconsin. An isolated thunderstorm is…
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Periods of rain Saturday, some Sunday sun

Periods of rain Saturday, some Sunday sun

We don’t need any more rain in Minnesota right now, but rain is in our forecast. Many parts of central and southern Minnesota have seen two to five inches of rain in the past week: Some spots that didn’t receive two inches or more in the past 7 days had several inches of rain from the storms…
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Showers at times, possibly a thunderstorm

Showers at times, possibly a thunderstorm

Our weather is settling down a bit today, but some isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are still possible over southeastern Minnesota this afternoon and evening.
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Periods of rain and thunder

Periods of rain and thunder

Expect highs in the mid to upper 70s in the Twin Cities metro area. Highs Saturday will be in the upper 60s over northern Minnesota, around 70 in the south.
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Showers and thunderstorms at times

Showers and thunderstorms at times

Periods of rain, and a few thunderstorms, are expected on Friday. The severe thunderstorm risk shifts to far southeastern Minnesota for Friday and Friday night.
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Severe weather outlook

Severe weather outlook

There is plenty of juicy air out ahead of the cold front, so thunderstorms are expected to become more numerous with time. Periods of thunderstorms are also expected overnight.
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July 2016 sets new global warmth record; severe weather risk Thursday

July 2016 sets new global warmth record; severe weather risk Thursday

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information announced today that July 2016 was the warmest month on record. Per NOAA’s report : The July temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.57°F above the 20th century average of 60.4°F. This was the highest for July in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by…
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