Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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If it’s too cool for you right now, you’ll be happy to know that our temps will rebound this weekend. 

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 84 degrees on July 10. We’ll see metro area highs in the lower 80s this Saturday.  Most of Minnesota will top out in the 80s on Saturday, with some 70s up along the North Shore of Lake Superior:

Saturday afternoon dew points will be mainly in the comfortable 50s:

Sunday high temperatures reach the upper 80s in many locations, including the Twin Cities:

A few spots in northwestern Minnesota could touch 90. 

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the 50s:

A low pressure system will pass to our south on Saturday. That system could spin some scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm over parts of southwestern and south-central Minnesota on Saturday. Sunday looks dry in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon:

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio 

, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News 

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

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It’s July and many of us have outdoor plans for the weekend. The weather will cooperate with those outdoor plans in most areas.

Weekend forecast: July warmth returns; Saturday shower chance favors southwestern Minnesota

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