Forecast Details for Verndale, MN

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Current Alerts for Verndale, MN: Winter Weather Advisory

Today: A chance of rain and snow, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. East southeast wind 5 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Tonight: A chance of rain and snow before 9pm, then snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 27. East wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Thursday: Snow. High near 33. East northeast wind 14 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

Thursday Night: A 40 percent chance of snow before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. North wind 6 to 10 mph.

Friday: Snow likely before 4pm, then snow likely, possibly mixed with rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. East northeast wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Friday Night: Snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 7pm, then snow. Low around 27. Northeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: Snow likely, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. North northwest wind 9 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20. Northwest wind 13 to 17 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 38. West northwest wind around 11 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. West wind 6 to 8 mph.

Monday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. North wind 6 to 11 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 16. North wind 5 to 9 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 39. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Rain Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain. Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.

Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island. Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of cities is 30% greater.

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet Next Topic: Snow

Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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