NEXT Weather: Fantastic fair weather for next few days, but air quality alert issued in western MN
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you've got plans to go to the Minnesota State Fair this week, you couldn't ask for a better forecast.
Temperatures will remain in the 80s in the Twin Cities on Tuesday and stay there through Thursday.
Some wildfire smoke could drift down from Canada into the metro on Tuesday, but that same air is expected to be an issue in the western part of the state.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air quality alert for that part of the state from 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29 through 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30, for areas including Alexandria, Marshall, Worthington, Ortonville, Bemidji, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, Roseau, and the tribal nations of Upper Sioux, Leech Lake, and Red Lake.
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"Heavy ground-level smoke from wildfires in the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta is currently blanketing most of western Canada. This smoke will be brought into the Dakotas and western Minn. early Tuesday morning by northerly winds," the MPCA reported. "The smoke will quickly move south across the western one-third of the state, impacting northwest Minn. in the morning, then the southwest part of the state in the afternoon through early Wednesday morning. The duration of smoke impacts will be brief at any one location, but concentrations may be very high and reach the Red AQI category for a few hours."
Highs will get close to 90 on Friday and should hit it over the weekend.
