Excessive heat watch in effect through Sunday

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It doesn’t get much better than this in a Minnesota summer. 

We enjoy another day of partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures through Friday. Dew points remain in the comfortable 50s. 

My parents grew up in south Minneapolis. They used to tell me about the heat waves of the 1930s when they were kids. There was no AC in those days. People went down to the lakes in Minneapolis and slept by the water to try and catch a break from the intense heat. 

No wonder my parents used to call our current comfortable air mass “good sleeping weather.”

Friday brings partly cloudy skies to Minnesota once again. High temperatures will be in the 70s to around 80 degrees across Minnesota Friday afternoon. A few degrees cooler by your favorite Great Lake. 

The weekend brings a few more scattered air mass thundershowers to Minnesota. 

On the map below, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NAM 3 km model shows the pop-up nature of the cells once again Saturday afternoon. The forecast model loop runs between noon and 7 p.m. Saturday. 

Sunday through next Tuesday features similar pop-up thundershowers. Highs will run a few degrees warmer.

The medium-range forecast suggests we dry out and heat up later next week. Highs could approach 90 degrees by Sunday, July 27.

NOAA’s temperature outlooks favor warmer-than-normal temperatures as we move into late July.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

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A beautiful weather pattern through Friday. A few isolated thundershowers this weekend. 

Lovely through Friday; isolated weekend thundershowers

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