Forecast Details for Kensal, ND

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Current Alerts for Kensal, ND: Winter Weather Advisory

Today: A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 34. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Tonight: Snow likely. Patchy blowing snow between 9pm and 10pm. Cloudy, with a low around 27. East wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Thursday: Snow likely, mainly after 7am. Patchy blowing snow after 8am. Cloudy, with a high near 32. East wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Thursday Night: Snow likely, mainly before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Northeast wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Snow, mainly after 1pm. High near 32. Northeast wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Friday Night: Snow. Low around 27. North wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Saturday: Snow likely, mainly before 1pm. Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Breezy, with a northwest wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: Patchy blowing snow before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 18. Northwest wind 11 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. Southwest wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Southwest wind around 11 mph becoming north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. North wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17. North wind around 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 36. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Precipitation?

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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Weather Topic: What are Shelf Clouds?

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A shelf cloud is similar to a wall cloud, but forms at the front of a storm cloud, instead of at the rear, where wall clouds form.

A shelf cloud is caused by a series of events set into motion by the advancing storm; first, cool air settles along the ground where precipitation has just fallen. As the cool air is brought in, the warmer air is displaced, and rises above it, because it is less dense. When the warmer air reaches the bottom of the storm cloud, it begins to cool again, and the resulting condensation is a visible shelf cloud.

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