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Our final weekend of August will feature some showers and thunderstorms at times, but many dry hours too.

The first batch of showers and thunderstorms is expected to spread across Minnesota and western Wisconsin Friday evening and overnight Friday night, then linger into early Saturday in northern Minnesota and parts of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Another batch of showers and thunderstorms will affect parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin late Saturday afternoon into Saturday night.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from 4 a.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday:

It’ll rain in some areas that look dry in the model loop. We’ll have some updated model depictions of weekend rain potential tomorrow.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are also expected to develop over Minnesota and western Wisconsin Sunday afternoon and evening.

You can track showers and thunderstorm this weekend on the new 

interactive radar on the MPR weather page

. You can pan and zoom the radar display on our site to see precipitation at your location, across all of Minnesota and western Wisconsin and beyond.

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 on Aug. 27 is 79 degrees. We’re expecting Twin Cities highs in the lower 80s this Saturday. High temps Saturday afternoons will range from the upper 80s in parts of west-central and southwestern Minnesota to 70s in northeastern Minnesota

Saturday afternoon dew points will be in the sticky 60s in many areas:

Sunday highs will be well into the 80s in most spots, with mid to upper 80s in the Twin Cities metro area:

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the sticky 60s, with upper 60s in the metro area and southern Minnesota:

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 see some showers and thunderstorms at times this weekend, but many rain-free hours too. Sunday will feature summery heat and humidity.

Weekend weather: Shower and t-storm chances; warmest temps on Sunday

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