Twin Cities broke daily temp record on Tuesday

Minnesotans try to beat the heat Tuesday

The day before the Minnesota State Fair opens, many Minnesotans are trying to beat the heat on Tuesday at different lakes and beaches. FOX 9’s Rob Olson checks in from Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis.

(FOX 9) - Much of Minnesota was well in the 90s on Tuesday with some spots surpassing 100 degrees. At the same time, parts of northern Minnesota were comfortably in the 60s.

In the Twin Cities, a record was set for the daily high temp as the thermometer hit 98 degrees. That surpassed the last record set in 1971.

Record or not, the heat indices across southern Minnesota were brutal with feels-like temperatures well into the triple digits. In Mankato, the feels-like temp hit 120. Spring Lake Township and Inver Grove Heights also both hit a heat index of 119 degrees.

If you needed to cool off, you could have made a trip up north. In the Duluth area, temperatures were in the low 60s thanks to a wind off the lake. Port Wing, Wisconsin, on the southern shore of Lake Superior, was a chilly 52 degrees Tuesday afternoon.