Forecast Details for Parkers Prairie, MN

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Current Alerts for Parkers Prairie, MN: Air Quality Alert

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Areas of smoke after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 9 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Monday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Areas of smoke before 8am. Cloudy, with a high near 71. South southeast wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. South southeast wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. South southeast wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. South southeast wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. South wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. South wind 6 to 10 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind 6 to 9 mph.

Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, then a chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Southeast wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. South southeast wind 7 to 10 mph.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. South southwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. West northwest wind 6 to 10 mph.

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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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Weather Topic: What is Snow?

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Snow is precipitation taking the form of ice crystals. Each ice crystal, or snowflake, has unique characteristics, but all of them grow in a hexagonal structure. Snowfall can last for sustained periods of time and result in significant buildup of snow on the ground.

On the earth's surface, snow starts out light and powdery, but as it begins to melt it tends to become more granular, producing small bits of ice which have the consistency of sand. After several cycles of melting and freezing, snow can become very dense and ice-like, commonly known as snow pack.

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