Southern Minnesota has best rain chances Saturday
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The Twin Cities metro area will ride the northern edge of the cloud deck this Saturday.
Here’s the 7 a.m. satellite picture, showing plenty of clouds in far southern Minnesota and a lot of sunshine in northern and central Minnesota:
Periods of rain are likely today along and south of a Marshall, Faribault to Wabasha line in Minnesota and on into southern Wisconsin. There could be an embedded t-storm today in far southern Minnesota. The Twin Cities metro area will have a chance of a brief shower, mainly in the south metro.
Forecast models also show scattered showers developing in central Minnesota later this afternoon/early this evening and then spreading southeastward. Some of those scattered showers could move through parts of the metro area this Saturday evening.
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Temps and winds
Saturday highs will be mainly in the 60s in the southern third of Minnesota and far northern Minnesota, with some lower 70s in between:
Twin Cities metro area highs will be in the upper 60s to around 70. Our average Twin Cities high is 76 this time of year.
Saturday afternoon wind gusts will be between 14 and 18 mph in many areas:
Forecast wind gusts are in knots, with 14 knots equal to 16.1 mph.
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