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

Reasonable weekend dew points

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

Weekend temps and dew points

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:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

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

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Saturday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

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

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

A few spots in northwestern Minnesota could touch 90.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the 50s:

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Sunday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

Weekend rain chance?

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:

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Simulated radar Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio network, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

Programming note

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.