Forecast Details for Wolf Point, MT

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Current Alerts for Wolf Point, MT: High Wind Watch Red Flag Warning

Today: A 20 percent chance of rain after 3pm. Mostly cloudy early, then becoming sunny, with a high near 85. East wind 11 to 16 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.

Tonight: A chance of rain and thunderstorms, then rain likely after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. West southwest wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday: Rain, mainly before noon. High near 50. Windy, with a west northwest wind 25 to 33 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 24 to 29 mph decreasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. West wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. West northwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming light north northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. Calm wind becoming north northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 9pm, then a slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 57.

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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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