Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

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My informal unscientific analysis from Minnesotans says that about 70 percent of you enjoy our current weather pattern. You tell me you like days with highs in the 60s and 70s with low humidity. You like nights in the 50s where you can open the window and sleep with a comfortable coolness. 

The rest of you prefer our summers to be warm to hot and humid. I can totally understand both groups. I enjoy both kinds of weather during our all-too-short Minnesota summers. It’s great to be out on the lake with temperatures in the 80s or 90s. And these lovely cooler days in the 70s are gold on the golf course.

We’ll see both kinds of weather in the next two weeks across Minnesota. And this weekend will feel like pure September in August.

Saturday dawns chilly across much of Minnesota. Lows will fall into the 40s north with 50s across the southern half of Minnesota.

Sunshine will help highs recover into the low 70s across most of Minnesota by Saturday afternoon.

Sunday brings another few degrees of warming with highs into the mid and upper 70s. 

Next week brings highs in the 70s to most of Minnesota. 

There are signs that heat and humidity will return to Minnesota by late next week into the following weekend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System model pumps dew points back into the tropical 70s by the weekend of Aug. 17-18!

So enjoy this respite from hot steamy tropical air masses.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

Author

A relatively cool Canadian air mass lingers this weekend. Temperatures will warm gradually into next week.

A Septemberlike weekend ahead

Twin Cities National Weather Service office

Forecast low temperatures Saturday morning

A Septemberlike weekend ahead

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