Forecast Details for Sentinel Butte, ND

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Tonight: A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly after 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Breezy, with a southeast wind 21 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday: A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly before 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 36. Breezy, with a southeast wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Cloudy, with a low around 25. Southeast wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: A chance of snow after 11am, mixing with rain after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Breezy, with an east wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 9pm, then snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 25. East wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Friday: Snow. High near 34. Northeast wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45. Northwest wind 10 to 13 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26. Northwest wind around 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph becoming southwest after midnight.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 51. North wind 11 to 17 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. East wind around 18 mph becoming southeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Breezy.

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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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