Forecast Details for Plainview, MN

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Current Alerts for Plainview, MN: Winter Weather Advisory

Tonight: Rain showers and sleet before 3am, then freezing rain between 3am and 5am, then a chance of rain or freezing rain after 5am. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 32. Breezy, with an east wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. Total nighttime sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: Rain or freezing rain, becoming all rain after 8am. High near 42. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North wind 9 to 11 mph becoming west after midnight. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers. Low around 36. East wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday: A chance of rain showers before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a west wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 49. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow showers after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. North wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 47. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 16 mph.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 58. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Precipitation?

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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Weather Topic: What are Shelf Clouds?

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A shelf cloud is similar to a wall cloud, but forms at the front of a storm cloud, instead of at the rear, where wall clouds form.

A shelf cloud is caused by a series of events set into motion by the advancing storm; first, cool air settles along the ground where precipitation has just fallen. As the cool air is brought in, the warmer air is displaced, and rises above it, because it is less dense. When the warmer air reaches the bottom of the storm cloud, it begins to cool again, and the resulting condensation is a visible shelf cloud.

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