Forecast Details for Crookston, MN

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Current Alerts for Crookston, MN: Winter Storm Warning

This Afternoon: Snow likely, mainly before 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. North wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

Tonight: Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph.

Sunday: A chance of snow before 10am, then a chance of rain and snow between 10am and 11am, then a chance of rain after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Breezy, with a west wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 16. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. North northwest wind 11 to 16 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 14. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 34. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 8 to 13 mph increasing to 19 to 24 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain and snow after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 25 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Breezy, with a south wind 20 to 25 mph becoming west in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Blustery, with a northwest wind 14 to 23 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 37. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Southeast wind around 7 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 42. South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

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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 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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