MPR News PM Update

Aug. 26, 2022

Happy Friday! We’ll see some showers and thunderstorms at times, but we’ll have many dry hours this weekend too.

Parts of southwestern Minnesota could see scattered showers Friday afternoon. A batch of showers and thunderstorms is expected to spread across much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin Friday evening and overnight Friday night, then linger into early Saturday in northern Minnesota and parts of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Another batch of showers and thunderstorms will affect parts of Minnesota late Saturday afternoon into Saturday night.

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