 Forecast for Minnesota today, mostly sunny with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon highs mid-70s to the low 80s. Right now in the Twin Cities, it is 80 degrees and Duluth at 75. This is NPR News. In the fall of 2019, Alexa Murrell, a busy working mom with a one-year-old at home, took a weekend getaway to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.