Forecast Details for Lefor, ND

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Current Alerts for Lefor, ND: Fire Weather Watch

Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 52. South wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Windy, with a west wind 21 to 26 mph increasing to 28 to 33 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain before 9pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 9pm and midnight, then a slight chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Windy, with a west wind 22 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Windy, with a west wind 22 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Breezy, with a west wind 17 to 22 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Saturday: A slight chance of snow before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Breezy, with a west wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Saturday Night: A slight chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind 7 to 14 mph becoming northeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Sunday: A chance of snow before noon, then a chance of rain and snow between noon and 3pm, then a chance of rain after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 47. Northeast wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Northeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday: A chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. North wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54.

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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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