Weekend weather: Rain chances highest on Saturday; typical June temps

If you haven’t been to a Minnesota state park recently, you may be interested in visiting one on Saturday. It’s one of four Saturdays this year without an admission charge.

Nov. 25 is the next fee-free date.

Weekend temps and dew points

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 78 degrees on June 11. We’re expecting Twin Cities highs in the upper 70s to around 80 this Saturday. Highs will range from the lower 80s in southwestern Minnesota to 60s near Lake Superior Saturday afternoon:

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

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

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 western, central and southern Minnesota:

Weekend rain chances

Some clusters of showers and embedded thunderstorms will move across Minnesota and western Wisconsin Friday night and Saturday morning. A few scattered showers and thunderstorms are then possible Saturday afternoon and evening.

On Sunday, the best chance of scattered showers and a few thunderstorms is expected to be in northwestern and north-central Minnesota, with a lower chance of a shower or thunderstorm elsewhere in Minnesota and in western Wisconsin.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from 3 a.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday:

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.