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Pleasant temps and dew points this weekend

Dry in most areas

A cold front moved through here late yesterday. The cooler and drier air that followed the front will stay with us through the weekend.

Weekend temps and dew points

The average Twin Cities high temperature is 83 degrees on July 29. Metro area highs are forecast to be in the lower 80s this Saturday.

The northern third of Minnesota and parts of northwestern Wisconsin will have Saturday highs in the 70s, with 80s elsewhere:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Afternoon dew points will be in the comfortable 50s in many areas, with some lower 60s southeast:

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Saturday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

Sunday highs will be in the lower 80s in roughly the southern half of Minnesota, with mainly 70s elsewhere:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Sunday afternoon dew points will be mainly in the 50s:

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Sunday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

Mainly dry

Most of the weekend will be dry. An upper-level disturbance could bring scattered showers to parts of northern and central Minnesota late Saturday night into Sunday morning.

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. Sunday:

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Simulated radar from noon Saturday to 10 p.m. Sunday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR News network. Also check out the MPR News display of NWS radar.

Update

A new Updraft will be posted around 10:30 a.m. today. It’ll include 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. each Saturday and Sunday.

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