Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Comfortable weekend weather

Dry in most areas

After a steamy week, we’re ready for comfortable weather.

Saturday will be enjoyable, with comfortable temperatures and dew points. Most of Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin will have Saturday afternoon highs in the 70s:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

There’ll be some 60s in north-central and northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. The northern third of Minnesota will have more clouds today than southern Minnesota.

Saturday afternoon dew points will be reasonable for late summer; in the upper 50s to around 60:

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

Even drier dew points, in the lower 50s, are expected in northeastern Minnesota.

Sunday high temperatures will be mainly in the 70s, with lower 80s in southwestern Minnesota:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Grand Marais could top out in the upper 60s.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the 50s:

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

Mainly dry

A few scattered showers are possible in northwestern and north-central Minnesota late Sunday afternoon. The chance of scattered showers will expand to include northeastern Minnesota plus parts of central Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin Sunday evening.

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

Update

A new Updraft will be posted arrive 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.