Forecast Details for Dickinson, ND

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Current Alerts for Dickinson, ND: Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: A 30 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 29. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 20 mph. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday: Snow likely, mainly between 9am and 1pm. Patchy blowing snow between 10am and 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 34. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 9pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 26. East wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of snow. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 36. East wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Thursday Night: Snow. Low around 24. East wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Friday: Snow. High near 32. Northeast wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Friday Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 21. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Southwest wind 7 to 11 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming northeast in the evening.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 42. North wind 8 to 11 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Southeast wind around 11 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51.

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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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