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The official Twin Cities high temperature Saturday afternoon was 83 degrees. That’s very close to our average June 25 high of 82 degrees. It probably felt a bit refreshing to some people, after two days with highs in the 90s.

A combo of a low pressure system to the northeast and a high pressure system to our west will funnel even cooler and drier air into Minnesota Saturday night and Sunday.

It’ll be breezy on Sunday. Highs will be in the 70s in most of Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin, with 60s in north-central and northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin:

Dew points will be in the very comfortable 40s:

Monday highs will be mainly in the 80s, with some 70s in northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to be in the lower 80s Monday, followed by mid 80s Tuesday and upper 80s Wednesday, then around 90 on Thursday followed by lower 80s Friday.

Most of Minnesota will have dry weather Saturday evening. Western Wisconsin and far southeastern Minnesota could see some scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm early Saturday evening, then all the rain is expected to move off to the east.

Far northern Minnesota could see a few scattered showers on Sunday.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from 3 a.m. Sunday to 9 p.m. Sunday:

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 

Flood warnings continue in portions of the Rainy River Basin of far northern Minnesota:

Here is the most recent flooding update for that area:

Here’s a summary of flooding conditions in the Rainy River Basin:

Rainfall Friday night and early Saturday was highly variable in northern Minnesota:

 has additional information on the flooding.

The last time that we had an official Twin Cities high temp in the 70s was 10 days ago on, on June 15.

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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