Forecast Details for Prairie City, SD

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Current Alerts for Prairie City, SD: Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: A chance of snow and freezing rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Wind chill values as low as 12. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 24 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: Snow likely, possibly mixed with freezing rain, becoming all snow after 9am. Patchy blowing snow before 8am, then patchy blowing snow after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 35. Wind chill values as low as 12. Breezy, with a southeast wind 22 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 27. Wind chill values as low as 15. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: A chance of snow before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of rain after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 40. Wind chill values as low as 17. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Thursday Night: Rain likely before 9pm, then rain and snow likely between 9pm and midnight, then snow after midnight. Low around 25. Breezy, with an east wind 14 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Friday: Snow. High near 32. Northeast wind 14 to 16 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.

Friday Night: Snow, mainly before midnight. Low around 22. Northwest wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Breezy.

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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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