Forecast Details for Grand Forks, ND

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Overnight: A slight chance of snow before 2am, then a slight chance of snow after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 30. East wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: Snow before 5pm, then snow, possibly mixed with rain. High near 35. East wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Thursday Night: Snow likely, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Northeast wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday: A slight chance of snow between 7am and 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. East northeast wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Friday Night: Snow, possibly mixed with rain, becoming all snow after 4am. Low around 30. North northeast wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday: Snow likely, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Northwest wind 6 to 14 mph.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 41. West wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. North northwest wind around 16 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 30. North wind 15 to 18 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 17. North wind 6 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 13 to 18 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 20 to 24 mph.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 18 to 23 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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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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