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It’s nice to have a winning streak in sports or weather.  Our comfortable, sun-splashed weather will continue today and into the weekend. 

Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see highs in the 70s Friday afternoon, with a few 60s up along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Most of the Twin Cities metro area will top out in the upper 70s, which is a few degrees shy of our average high for this date of 80 degrees.

Highs in the 70s will be common on Saturday:

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the lower-70s Monday, followed by mid-70s next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Rain chances hold off until late on Sunday

Here’s the latest thinking on rain chances:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern Saturday evening through Monday night:

As always, updated weather information can be heard on the Minnesota Public Radio 

, and you’ll also see updated weather info on the MPR News 

This current slightly cool stretch will help us save on our summer air-conditioning bills.

We use cooling degree days to measure the need for air-conditioning. The average of the daily high temp and the low temp are compared to 65 degrees to determine cooling degree days. Thursday’s high of 75 and low of 60 give us an average of 68 degrees (rounded up) for Thursday.  That’s 3 degrees warmer than 65 degrees, so three cooling degree days were tallied on Thursday.

We’ve had 665 cooling degree days in the Twin Cities since June 1, which is 73 more than average over that time span:

By this point last summer, the Twin Cities had tallied 797 cooling degree days. We had many more hot days last summer than this summer.

You can hear my live weather updates on Minnesota Public Radio at 7:49 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:35 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

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We’ll see a lot of high temps in the 70s over the next few days, and rain chances hold off until late in the weekend. Our cooling bills are smaller this summer than last summer.

Weather winning streak continues into the weekend

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