Blizzard warnings in Northwest Minnesota, winter weather advisories across the state

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We’ll have plenty of Saturday sunshine in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, but winds will ramp up as a low pressure system moves into Nebraska.

A wind advisory runs from Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening in west-central and southwestern Minnesota.

Most of western Minnesota is in a red flag warning from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday due to strong winds and low relative humidity, which will create critical fire weather conditions:

Here are details of the red flag warning:

Winds could gust as high as 50 mph in parts of southwestern Minnesota Saturday afternoon.

Saturday afternoon wind gusts will be high enough from central Minnesota through the Twin Cities metro area and southeastern Minnesota to create an elevated fire weather risk:

Red flag warnings also cover parts of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday:

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

Saturday highs will be mainly in the 50s, with lower 60s in southwestern Minnesota and some 40s near Lake Superior:

Parts of the Twin Cities metro area will touch 60 degrees. The average Twin Cities high temperature is 52 degrees on April 6.

Portions of northwestern and north-central Minnesota will reach the 50s Sunday afternoon.

The approaching low-pressure system will bring some periods of rain to southern and central Minnesota plus portions of Wisconsin late Saturday night into Sunday.

Parts of northern Minnesota could see scattered precipitation on Sunday. There might be a rain/snow mix in portions of central Minnesota and up toward Brainerd and Hinckley on Sunday, before it changes to all rain in those areas.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 1 p.m. Saturday to 11 p.m. Sunday:

An isolated thunderstorm is also possible Sunday afternoon and evening in southern Minnesota.

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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Winds will ramp up Saturday afternoon, so a red flag warning is posted for western Minnesota from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. We’ll have periods of rain on Sunday.

Red flag warning western Minn. Saturday; rain at times Sunday

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