Forecast Details for Boyd, MN

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This Afternoon: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Southwest wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1am, then a slight chance of showers between 1am and 2am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 54. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Sunday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Monday: A slight chance of showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 84. West wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. South southeast wind 5 to 15 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. East southeast wind around 10 mph.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.

Thursday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.

Friday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. South wind around 10 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Rain Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

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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