Forecast Details for Buffalo Gap, SD

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Current Alerts for Buffalo Gap, SD: Fire Weather Watch

Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 37. West wind 3 to 5 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 74. Southwest wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. Southwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: A 30 percent chance of showers after noon. Increasing clouds, with a high near 78. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph.

Thursday Night: Rain showers likely before 4am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 4am and 5am, then a chance of snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Blustery, with a west wind 13 to 21 mph becoming north in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. North wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Northwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Saturday: A slight chance of snow showers between noon and 3pm, then a slight chance of rain showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Northwest wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 27.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 70.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 35.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 80.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.

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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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