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A warm and breezy Saturday

Dew points in the 50s

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 46 degrees this time of year. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reported 61 degrees at 6 a.m. today!

Twin Cities metro area highs will be in the low-to-mid 70s Saturday afternoon. Central and southern Minnesota plus much of Wisconsin will have highs in the 70s:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Parts of northeastern Minnesota could creep above 70 as well. Coldest highs will be in far northwestern Minnesota, where we’ll see some 50s and upper 40s.

It’ll be breezy today, with gusts over of 25 mph possible in central Minnesota and gusts over 30 mph at times in the metro area plus southern Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin:

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Saturday noon forecast wind gusts
National Weather Service

Plotted values are in knots, with 26 knots equal to around 30 mph.

Dew points will be almost summer-like, in the 50s in many areas:

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Saturday noon forecast dew points
National Weather Service

This Updraft blog will be updated around 10 a.m. with your Sunday forecast details plus a look at the week ahead.

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.