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.

September breeze today, Aug-tacular week ahead
Our weather hues change from gray to blue today as sunshine replaces a September-like cloud deck swirling east into Wisconsin. By tonight, a clear sky sets the stage for what may be a spectacular sky show this week.
Historic Iselle rakes Hawaii, steamy State Fair open?
They’re battening down the hatches as the first hurricane in 22 years rakes the Hawaiian Islands. Radars on the Big Island are lighting up with waves of rain from Hurricane Iselle. Hurricane Iselle is will be hitting the Big Island with high winds, heavy rainfall and high surf through Friday, then will bump along the rest…
Hurricane Iselle takes aim for Hawaii
Hurricane Iselle has maintained a good deal of strength and 85 miles per hour sustained winds as it churns toward the Big Island of Hawaii tonight. It may also make history.
Past “peak heat” this summer? Iselle threatens Hawaii
Have we already had the hottest day this summer in Minnesota? Statistically the odds say yes. The weather maps seem to agree. The hottest day so far in 2014 in the Twin Cities was 92 degrees on July 21. That’s close to the sweet spot for the average dates of the hottest temperatures of the…
Abbreviated summer of 2014?
The weather models are all over the map on precise details this week, but most agree on the general idea of temps near 80 for the metro and slightly increasing rainfall chances by the weekend.