Forecast Details for Fairmont, MN

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Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 20 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 10 to 20 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Low around 49. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 66. East northeast wind around 15 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Low around 44. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: A slight chance of thunderstorms before 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 10%.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 43. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south after midnight.
Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. North northwest wind around 15 mph.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. North wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

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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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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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