Winter storm warnings in northern Minnesota

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A high pressure system spread over Minnesota late Saturday night, which lightened our winds and allowed areas of dense fog to develop. The fog will linger into Sunday morning, then burn off.

A dense fog advisory (shaded gray) covers much of Minnesota and parts of northwestern Wisconsin until 10 a.m.:

The dense fog advisory includes Anoka County of the Twin Cities metro area. The other 6 counties of the 7-county Twin Cities metro area are not included in the advisory, but could see patchy areas of morning fog.

Here are the northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin counties that are in a dense fog advisory (shaded gray) until 9 a.m. this Sunday:

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The dense fog advisory for portions of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin has been extended to 10 a.m. by the Duluth office of the NWS.

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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 

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 80 degrees this time of year. Some spots in the metro are will touch 80 Sunday afternoon, with upper 70s in the remainder of the metro area. 

Many spots in Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see Sunday highs in the upper 70s to around 80:

There will be some lower 80s in far northwestern Minnesota and a few upper 60s to lower 70s in sections of Lake and Cook County closest to Lake Superior.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the comfortable 50s in northern Minnesota, with slightly sticky lower 60s in the south:

A new Updraft blog will be posted around 10:20 a.m. with an update on our Sunday weather and a look at the week ahead.

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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Parts of Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin are in a dense fog advisory this Sunday morning. We have details on that, plus a pleasant afternoon forecast.

Areas of fog Sunday AM, then plenty of sunshine

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