Forecast Details for Le Center, MN

Recent Locations: Three Lakes, WI Woodmere, NY Le Center, MN

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 47. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow after 4am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 15. Blustery, with a northwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Saturday: A 50 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 19. North wind around 10 mph. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 4. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of snow after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 24. North northeast wind around 5 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14. East wind around 5 mph becoming south after midnight.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37. South wind 5 to 15 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. South wind around 10 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. South wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. East southeast wind around 10 mph.

Thursday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. East southeast 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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