Forecast Details for Detroit Lakes, MN

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Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around -9. Wind chill values as low as -20. North wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 18. Wind chill values as low as -16. Light southeast wind becoming south southeast 11 to 16 mph in the morning.

Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature rising to around 21 by 4am. South wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Tuesday: A chance of snow and freezing rain before 9am, then a chance of snow between 9am and noon. Patchy blowing snow between 8am and 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Blustery, with a southwest wind 15 to 23 mph becoming northwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -4. Northwest wind 12 to 17 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 16. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph in the morning.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. South southeast wind 6 to 8 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Southwest wind 10 to 14 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 15 to 24 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -2. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 13 to 21 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 8. North northwest wind 10 to 14 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -9. North wind 6 to 9 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 15. East wind 6 to 9 mph.

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Weather Topic: What are Cirrus Clouds?

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Cirrus clouds are high-level clouds that occur above 20,000 feet and are composed mainly of ice crystals. They are thin and wispy in appearance.

What do they indicate?
They are often the first sign of an approaching storm.

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Weather Topic: What are Contrails?

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A contrail is an artificial cloud, created by the passing of an aircraft.

Contrails form because water vapor in the exhaust of aircraft engines is suspended in the air under certain temperatures and humidity conditions. These contrails are called exhaust contrails.

Another type of contrail can form due to a temporary reduction in air pressure moving over the plane's surface, causing condensation. These are called aerodynamic contrails.

When you can see your breath on a cold day, it is also because of condensation. The reason contrails last longer than the condensation from your breath is because the water in contrails freezes into ice particles.

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