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Weekend weather: Nice temps; chance of showers, thunderstorms

Summery dew points

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 78 degrees on June 11. We’re expecting Twin Cities highs in the lower 80s Saturday. Highs will range from the mid-80s in southwestern Minnesota to 60s near Lake Superior Saturday afternoon:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Afternoon dew points in central and southern Minnesota will feel summery in the upper 50s to lower 60s:

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Saturday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

Sunday highs will be in the lower 80s in western and southern Minnesota with mainly 70s elsewhere:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Areas near Lake Superior will have Sunday highs in the 60s.

Sunday afternoon dew points will be in the upper 50s to lower 60s in central and southern Minnesota.

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Sunday 1 p.m. forecast dew points
National Weather Service

Rain chances

There will be many dry hours this weekend, as well as some periods of showers and a chance of thunderstorms.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the intermittent nature of the rain at any given location this weekend:

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Simulated radar from 4 a.m. Saturday to 7 p.m. Sunday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News network, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

Programming note

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.