Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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air quality alert for all of Minnesota until noon Monday.

 Air quality is expected to remain unhealthy for everyone through Saturday. 

Our winds will turn southerly this weekend,. But the smoke plume has penetrated into the central U.S. Friday as far south as Missouri and Kansas. 

That means we’ll recycle some of the smoke that has already pushed south of Minnesota this weekend before we start to pull cleaner air in here. NOAA’s HRRR near surface smoke output shows smoke levels of varying intensity washing over the Upper Midwest this weekend.

We may see more improvement in air quality Sunday.

Once again Friday the Twin Cities (and most of Minnesota) are breathing some of the worst air quality in the world.

Here’s the latest MPCA air quality forecast discussion updated Friday afternoon.

Pleasant weekend temperatures and humidity

Temperatures and humidity this weekend will be very pleasant across Minnesota Dew points will stay in the comfortable 50s this weekend. Highs will run in the 70s to near 80 across Minnesota this weekend.

Next week looks increasingly summery across Minnesota. Southerly winds should keep smoke levels tolerable. Highs will warm back into the 80s.

We’ll runs a low-grade (30 percent) chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms next week, but many of us will get an extended chance to dry out.

Enjoy the weekend as much as you are able!

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