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Our Saturday weather will be summery, which is appropriate because we’re in meteorological summer (June through August).

Our average June 18 Twin Cities high temp is 80 degrees. Metro area high temps are forecast to reach the lower 80s on Saturday. High temps Saturday afternoon will range from the lower 90s in portions of western Minnesota to mainly 70s in northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Areas near Lake Superior will have highs in the 60s.

Saturday dew points will be in the 50s in many locations, with sticky 60s creeping into southwestern Minnesota:

Lower dew points (drier air) will linger over northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.

High temperatures really ramp up on Sunday, with triple-digit highs in parts of western Minnesota and many 90s in the east:

Northeastern Minnesota will be in the 70s, with a few 60s up along portions of the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the sticky 60s in many areas:

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch for much of the Twin Cities metro area that starts at noon on Sunday and continues into Monday night. An excessive heat watch starts at 10 a.m. Sunday and continues through Monday night for counties to the west:

An excessive heat watch begins at 10 a.m. Sunday and continues through the overnight hours of Sunday night for several northwestern Minnesota counties:

Here are details of the excessive heat watch that includes most of the Twin Cities metro area:

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News 

, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News 

A few scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible in northern and central Minnesota and parts of western Wisconsin on Saturday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from 4 a.m. Saturday to 9 p.m. Saturday:

At this point, it looks like many spots will have a dry Saturday, with just a few minutes of rain in the spots that do see some rain. Check forecast updates. 

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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Ron Trenda

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Most of Minnesota will have typical June weather on Saturday, then Sunday will be very hot. An excessive heat watch begins on Sunday and continues through Monday.

Weekend weather: Warm Saturday, hot on Sunday

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