Forecast Details for Doland, SD

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Current Alerts for Doland, SD: Winter Weather Advisory

Tonight: Snow. Low around 27. Northwest wind 6 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Saturday: Snow, mainly before 1pm. Patchy blowing snow. High near 34. Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. West wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Northwest wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 21. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 31. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17. Northeast wind 11 to 14 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Tuesday: A slight chance of rain and snow after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Windy, with a south southeast wind 17 to 22 mph increasing to 25 to 30 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 24 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Breezy.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Friday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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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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