Northland Outdoors Forecast: Warm and mostly sunny weekend

By Jared Piepenburg

July 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM

Besides a few isolated showers and storms in the Dakotas, our weather is shaping up to stay dry, hot, and mostly sunny this weekend. This weather pattern looks to stick around all of next week as well.

We'll finish off this work week with highs ranging from 70s in Wisconsin to mid and upper 90s in parts of the Dakotas.

NOF Friday.PNG — Friday's weather for the region

Isolated thunderstorms can't be ruled out in western and central parts of the Dakotas, but most of the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest will be dry for days.

NOF Friday futurecast.PNG — Precipitation outlook for Friday

Saturday will be hot for most of us. Highs again will top off in the 90s in the Dakotas with mid and upper 80s for Minnesota.

NOF Saturday.PNG — Saturday's weather for the region.

Winds will be light Friday through Sunday for Wisconsin and Minnesota, but a little south and southeast breeze can be expected for both North and South Dakota.

NOF Saturday wind.PNG — Saturday's wind forecast

Sunday will feature more of the same with highs rising into the upper 80s and a lot of us reaching the 90s.

NOF Sunday.PNG — Sunday's forecast for the region.

By Jared Piepenburg

I grew up in Minnesota and my love of the outdoors lead me on a path to becoming in meteorologist. I got my Bachelor of Science in meteorology at St. Cloud State University. I started out my career as a TV meteorologist in Bismarck at KX News in 2010. I left Bismarck for Fargo in the fall of 2015 where I've been since working for WDAY as well as The Forum.

Northland Outdoors Forecast: Warm and mostly sunny weekend

We are heading into another period of hot and dry weather.