Forecast Details for Cold Spring, MN

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Current Alerts for Cold Spring, MN: Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. North northeast wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of snow showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. East wind 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday Night: Rain and snow showers likely before 11pm, then snow showers and sleet. Low around 29. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Thursday: Snow showers and sleet, possibly mixed with freezing rain before 1pm, then rain showers, snow showers, and sleet between 1pm and 4pm, then snow showers and sleet after 4pm. High near 34. East northeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow and sleet accumulation of around an inch possible.

Thursday Night: A chance of snow showers and sleet before midnight, then a chance of snow showers between midnight and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A chance of snow showers and freezing rain before noon, then snow showers likely between noon and 3pm, then snow showers likely, possibly mixed with rain after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night: Rain and snow showers, becoming all snow after 10pm. Low around 28. North northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 21. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind around 10 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. South southwest wind around 5 mph.

Monday: A slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45. East wind 5 to 10 mph.

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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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