Forecast Details for Crookston, MN

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Current Alerts for Crookston, MN: Flood Warning

Today: Sunny, with a high near 69. South wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. West southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Southeast wind 8 to 18 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

Thursday Night: A slight chance of rain before 1am, then a chance of rain and snow between 1am and 4am, then a chance of snow after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Blustery, with a north wind 18 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 34. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 20 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 19 to 24 mph decreasing to 6 to 11 mph after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 44. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. North northeast wind 6 to 11 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Southwest wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph.

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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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