Forecast Details for Randolph, MN

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Current Alerts for Randolph, MN: Winter Storm Warning

This Afternoon: A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 48. East wind around 15 mph.

Tonight: Rain showers and sleet, possibly mixed with snow showers before 3am, then freezing rain and sleet between 3am and 4am, then sleet after 4am. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 31. East wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: Rain showers, freezing rain, and sleet, becoming all rain after 10am. The sleet could be heavy at times. High near 38. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday Night: Showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Cloudy, with a low around 29. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. High near 44. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 34. East northeast wind around 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: A chance of rain showers before 5pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 47. West northwest wind around 10 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West northwest wind around 10 mph.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. North northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 46. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon.

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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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