Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Showers linger Saturday morning from SE Minnesota into Wisconsin

Cool temps

Light winds allowed fog to form in parts of Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin overnight into Saturday. A dense fog advisory continues until 9 a.m. in the gray shaded areas of Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin:

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Dense fog advisory (grey) until 9 a.m. Saturday
National Weather Service

Rain update

As of 7 a.m. showers covered parts of south-central Minnesota and most of southeastern Minnesota into west-central and southwestern Wisconsin. The trailing edge of the showers will shift eastward Saturday

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from noon Saturday to 10 p.m. Saturday:

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NAM simulated radar noon Saturday to 10 p.m. Saturday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model shows a similar rain pattern this afternoon and evening:

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HRRR simulated radar noon Saturday to 10 p.m. Saturday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

You can track showers and thunderstorms on the new interactive radar on the MPR weather page. You can pan and zoom the radar display on our site to see rain at your location, across all of Minnesota, western Wisconsin and beyond.

We have updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News network, and on the MPR News live weather blog.

Saturday highs

Saturday afternoon highs will be in the 60s in far northern Minnesota plus western Wisconsin and far southeastern Minnesota, with some lower 70s elsewhere:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Update

A new Updraft will be posted around 10:20 a.m. and it will include details on our Sunday weather plus a look at the week ahead.

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. Saturday and Sunday.