Weekend weather: Thunderstorm chance Saturday; dry Sunday
Breezy on Sunday
Our Saturday temperatures will be fairly typical for this point in June. Cooler temps arrive on Sunday.
The average Twin Cities high temperature is 78 degrees on June 10. Some spots in the metro area could reach 80 degrees this Saturday afternoon.
There will be some lower 80s from southeastern Minnesota into west-central Wisconsin, with mainly 70s elsewhere:
Temperatures in the 60s are expected near Lake Superior.
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It’ll feel summery in central and southern Minnesota Saturday afternoon, with dew points in the upper 50s to lower 60s:
Sunday high temperatures will be mainly in the 70s:
Northwestern Wisconsin and areas near Lake Superior will have Sunday highs in the 60s.
Sunday afternoon dew points will be mainly in the 40s, which is fairly dry for this time of year:
It’ll be breezy Sunday afternoon.
Saturday rain chance
A cool front drops southward from Canada on Saturday, with cooler air arriving in southern Minnesota late in the day.
The front will help initiate some scattered showers and thunderstorms on Saturday. In the Twin Cities metro area, the best chance of scattered showers and a few thunderstorms will be Saturday afternoon into very early Saturday evening.
Some areas in Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see no rain this Saturday, but this will be our best chance of rain in the next three days.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from 4 a.m. Saturday to 11 p.m. Saturday:
NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model shows the following rainfall pattern for the same time period:
Pay more attention to the scattered nature of the rain in most areas rather than the exact location of the rain at any point in time.
Both forecast models show the best chance of significant rain will be in far southern Minnesota late Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening.
You can find updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR News network.
Programming note
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