Wintry mix Thursday night, another storm Friday

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I’ll get to the very pleasant weekend forecast after I cover the details of our current air quality alert.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to issue an air quality alert for all of Minnesota through the overnight hours of Thursday night, ending at 6 a.m. Friday:

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an air quality alert today through noon on Friday for most of western Wisconsin. Here are details, via the National Weather Service:

The Wisconsin DNR has also issued an air quality alert from midnight Thursday night through Friday evening for much of southern Wisconsin.

We have nice weather in the weekend forecast, which is a nice change from recent weekends.

A nearby high pressure system will give us dry weekend weather and ample sunshine across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. 

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 p.m. Sunday:

You can find updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR News 

Near-normal temperatures are very pleasant this time of year.

The average Twin Cities high temperature on May 20 is 71 degrees. Metro area highs are expected to reach the lower 70s this Saturday.

Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin will have Saturday afternoon highs in the 70s:

Sunday highs will also be mainly in the 70s, with much cooler 60s and 50s near Lake Superior due to gusty east-northeasterly winds:

Twin Cities metro area highs are expected to reach the upper 70s on Sunday.

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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You’re probably going to like the weekend weather forecast. We have details on that, plus the air quality alert that continues this Thursday and Thursday night.

Weekend weather: Very nice; dry with comfortable temperatures

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