Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

A warm and bright Saturday

Rain-free through this evening

Our Saturday weather should cooperate with most outdoor plans. There are some areas of early morning fog, but that fog will burn off this morning.

Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin can expect a lot of sunshine today, The sun may be filtered by high clouds at times in the south.

Our average Twin Cities high temperature on June 27 is 82 degrees. Twin Cities metro area temps will probably reach the upper 80s by late Saturday afternoon. Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin will have Saturday highs in the 80s:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Afternoon dew points will be mainly in the 50s, with a few lower 60s in the far south:

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

Rain is not expected in Minnesota or western Wisconsin today or this evening.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern in our region Saturday and Saturday evening:

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Simulated radar Saturday and Saturday evening
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

Updraft will be updated by around 10 a.m. with details on the rest of the weekend and the coming week.

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.