Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

A bit cool this Saturday, with a shower chance in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin

A bit humid too

Parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin have a bit of Saturday morning fog. That fog should lift by late morning.

A low pressure system in northeastern Iowa will drift slowly eastward today. It’s still close enough to give east-central Minnesota, the Twin Cities metro area, and parts of southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin a chance of scattered showers today, with an isolated afternoon thunderstorm also possible. The spots that do see some rain today will see many more dry minutes than wet minutes.

Severe weather isn’t expected in Minnesota or western Wisconsin today or tonight. The Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service shows general (non-severe) thunderstorms Saturday and Saturday night in parts of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

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Severe weather outlook Saturday and Saturday night
NWS Storm Prediction Center

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.

Temps and dew points

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 80 degrees on Aug. 20. We're looking at metro area highs in the mid 70s this Saturday. We’ll share 70s with most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

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Saturday forecast highs
National Weather Service

There’ll probably be some 60s near Lake Superior.

Saturday afternoon dew points will be in the sticky 60s in many areas:

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

Update

A new Updraft blog will be posted around 10:20 a.m. and it will include a look at Sunday and the week ahead.

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.