Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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It’ll be a breezy Saturday, but this will be the most comfortable day of the next four days. Highs will be in the 80s across much of Minnesota Saturday afternoon, with  mainly 70s in northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Portions of west-central and southwestern Minnesota could top 90, and cool 60s are expected near Lake Superior. 

Twin Cities metro area highs are forecast to reach the low to mid 80s Saturday afternoon. That’s a few degrees warmer than our average Twin Cities high of 80 for this date.

It’ll be a rain-free weekend for much of southern and central Minnesota.  There have been some scattered showers and thunderstorms in northwestern Minnesota and parts of north-central Minnesota Saturday morning. Those areas of rain will expand eastward Saturday afternoon. 

The best chance of periods of showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening is expected to be in roughly the northern third of Minnesota—-and eventually parts of northwestern Wisconsin. Central Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin could see an isolated shower or thunderstorm too.

 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 

Sunday highs reach the 90s in many areas:

Northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see mainly 80s, with 70s and a few 60s near Lake Superior.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the sticky 60s in much of Minnesota, with steamy 70s in the southwest:

Monday highs will be in the upper 90s in many spots:

A few triple-digit highs are possible Monday afternoon, even in the Twin Cities metro area. 

Monday dew points will reach the upper 60s to around 70:

The combination of heat and humidity will create heat index values over 100 in several locations Sunday and Monday:

Heat advisories, watches and warnings begin on Sunday

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

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

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 the 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:

After a Twin Cities high temp in the upper 90s to around 100 on Monday, metro area highs are projected to reach the lower 90s Tuesday, followed by mid 80s Wednesday, lower 90s Thursday and mid 90s on Friday. 

Last year, our official Twin Cities high temp reached the 90s in 10 of the first 13 days of June. Our Twin Cities official high has reached the 90s just once so far this June, but we’ll add to that total tomorrow and much of the coming week.

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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We’ll have a breezy and summery Saturday, then temps really ramp up on Sunday. Parts of northern Minnesota will see scattered showers and storms this Saturday.

Summery Saturday; heat ramps up for Sunday and Monday

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