Forecast Details for Madison Lake, MN

Recent Locations: Madison Lake, MN

Today: Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 60. South southeast wind around 5 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 60. Breezy, with a southeast wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 4am, then showers likely. Steady temperature around 57. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 20 to 25 mph becoming south after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday: A chance of showers before 7am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Northwest wind around 15 mph becoming northeast after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Sunday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 59. East northeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Sunday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Northeast wind around 15 mph becoming west southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. West wind around 15 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. West wind 10 to 15 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 72. South southwest wind 10 to 15 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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