A nice, summery Saturday

We’ll have typical July weather today. Our average July 9 high temperature is 84 degrees in the Twin Cities. Many spots in the metro area will top out in the mid 80s Saturday afternoon.

Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see Saturday highs in the 80s, with some 70s in northeastern Minnesota:

Saturday afternoon dew points will range from mid to upper 60s in west-central and southwestern Minnesota to very comfortable 40s in the northeast:

Areas of morning fog

Parts of southwestern and south-central Minnesota will have areas of dense fog this Saturday morning. It’s expected to burn off later this morning.

Thunderstorm chances

Northwestern Minnesota will have a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening. That shower and thunderstorm chance will spread eastward overnight Saturday night. The NWS Storm Prediction Center shows a slight risk (shaded yellow) of severe weather in far northwestern Minnesota Saturday and Saturday night:

Slight risk means that scattered severe thunderstorms are possible. An isolated severe thunderstorm is possible in the green-shaded area that’s labelled “1” on the map. Notes on timing and impacts are from the Grand Forks NWS office.

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

Update

Our thunderstorm and severe weather chances will increase on Sunday. I will have details on that, plus a look at the week ahead, in the next Updraft post around 10:20 a.m. today.

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.