Forecast Details for Pierpont, SD

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Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. West wind around 6 mph.

Sunday: A slight chance of rain between 11am and noon. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 38. Southwest wind 7 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. Northwest wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. North wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14. North northeast wind 6 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Tuesday: A slight chance of snow before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 13 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 20 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A slight chance of rain before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 22 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 11 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Thursday: A slight chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday Night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Friday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday: A chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

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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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