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Summery Saturday in southern Minnesota, cooler to the north

P.M. shower chance north

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 75 degrees on Sept. 11. We could top 80 degrees in the metro area this Saturday afternoon.

Saturday highs will range from 60s in far northern Minnesota to 80s in the far south:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Saturday dew points will be in the comfortable 40s and 50s in northern and central Minnesota, with stickier 60s in the south:

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

P.M. shower chances begin in the north

A few scattered showers could move into northwestern Minnesota late Saturday afternoon, then expand into the remainder of northern Minnesota Saturday evening.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh (HRRR) shows the potential rain pattern Saturday afternoon through Saturday evening:

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

Southern Minnesota could see scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm late Saturday night and early on Sunday.

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio network, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

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.