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A Septemberlike weekend ahead

Comfy temps and plenty of sunshine Saturday and Sunday

Twin Cities area forecast at a glance
Twin Cities area forecast at a glance.
Twin Cities National Weather Service office

My informal unscientific analysis from Minnesotans says that about 70 percent of you enjoy our current weather pattern. You tell me you like days with highs in the 60s and 70s with low humidity. You like nights in the 50s where you can open the window and sleep with a comfortable coolness.

The rest of you prefer our summers to be warm to hot and humid. I can totally understand both groups. I enjoy both kinds of weather during our all-too-short Minnesota summers. It’s great to be out on the lake with temperatures in the 80s or 90s. And these lovely cooler days in the 70s are gold on the golf course.

We’ll see both kinds of weather in the next two weeks across Minnesota. And this weekend will feel like pure September in August.

Saturday dawns chilly across much of Minnesota. Lows will fall into the 40s north with 50s across the southern half of Minnesota.

Forecast low temperatures Saturday morning
Forecast low temperatures Saturday morning
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sunshine will help highs recover into the low 70s across most of Minnesota by Saturday afternoon.

Forecast high temperatures Saturday
Forecast high temperatures Saturday
NOAA

Sunday brings another few degrees of warming with highs into the mid and upper 70s.

Forecast high temperatures Sunday
Forecast high temperatures Sunday
NOAA

Next week brings highs in the 70s to most of Minnesota.

There are signs that heat and humidity will return to Minnesota by late next week into the following weekend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System model pumps dew points back into the tropical 70s by the weekend of Aug. 17-18!

NOAA GFS model dew
Global Forecast System model dew point output next weekend
NOAA, via Tropical Tidbits

So enjoy this respite from hot steamy tropical air masses.