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Saturday will be the most comfortable temperatures of the next four days. There will be a lot of 80s in Minnesota, with mainly 70s in northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

A few spots in west-central and southwestern Minnesota will top 90, and there will be some 60s near Lake Superior.

Saturday dew points will be mainly in the 50s and 40s, with sticky 60s in southwestern Minnesota:

Northwestern Minnesota and parts of north-central Minnesota are seeing some scattered showers and a few embedded thunderstorms this morning. The best chance of scattered Saturday rain today will be in the northern third of Minnesota and parts of northwestern Wisconsin. Portions of west-central Wisconsin could see an evening shower or thunderstorm. An isolated shower of thunderstorm is possible this afternoon/early evening in central Minnesota as well.

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 

Many areas will have Sunday highs in the 90s:

Dew points will be in the sticky 60s in many areas, with heat index values topping 100 degrees.

A variety of excessive heat warnings, heat advisories, and excessive heat watches begin on Sunday in Minnesota:

The excessive heat watch in the Twin Cities metro area and points to the west starts at 1 p.m. Sunday and continues to 1 a.m. Monday:

The heat advisory in southwestern Minnesota runs from 10 a.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday.

An excessive heat warning covers several northwestern Minnesota counties from 10 a.m. Sunday to 9 p.m. Sunday, with a heat advisory for that same period in orange shaded counties:

Here are details of the excessive heat warning that begins on Sunday and the wind advisory Saturday afternoon/evening in that same area:

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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This will be the most comfortable day of the next four days. The heat ramps up on Sunday.

A summery Saturday; hot on Sunday

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