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A sun-splashed Sunday; back to the 50s

Lighter winds than yesterday

Our Sunday high temps will be 10 to 15 degrees cooler than Saturday’s highs in many locations.

Highs will be in the 40s across much of northern and central Minnesota, with some lower 50s in the Twin Cities metro area and southern Minnesota:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

It’ll be a bit breezy at times, but it won’t be as windy as yesterday. Here are the forecast 1 p.m. wind gusts, which are highest in northern Minnesota:

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Sunday 1 p.m. forecast wind gusts
National Weather Service

Plotted values are in knots, with 13 knots equal to around 15 mph.

Parts of far northeastern Minnesota will see some early morning clouds and possibly a stray snow flurry, but most areas will have plenty of sunshine.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the Sunday cloud cover:

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Sunday simulated cloud cover
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

The loop shows a few clouds moving into far southern Minnesota and far northern Minnesota later in the afternoon.

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR network, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

An updated Updraft blog, with details about the weather this coming week, will be posted by 9:30 a.m.

Programming note

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