Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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We have some good news about the smoke from Canadian wildfires.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency had this note Saturday afternoon:

An air quality alert continues for all of Minnesota through the weekend and on into Tuesday:

The MPCA now expects the air quality to fluctuate mainly between the “unhealthy “ category and the “unhealthy for sensitive groups” category over the next couple of days.

Here are details about the air quality alert, from the MPCA:

People whose health is affected by unhealthy air quality

Current Minnesota air quality readings can be found 

. I should mention that air quality is expected to be worse in western Minnesota than eastern Minnesota Sunday afternoon.

An air quality advisory has been issued for Wisconsin this weekend:

A guide to the various air quality categories can be found at 

The more serious air quality categories look like this:

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 83 degrees this time of year. The metro area will see highs near 80 this Sunday. Sunday highs will be in the 70s across much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, with some lower 80s in far southern Minnesota:

Sunday dew points will be in the very comfortable 40s to lower 50s:

This Updraft blog will be updated around 10:20 a.m. with a look at the week ahead.

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.

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires will linger over much of Minnesota and parts of western Wisconsin this Sunday. Details on that, plus your temperature forecast.

Areas of smoke linger; cooler temps

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