Forecast Details for Oakes, ND

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Today: Scattered showers, mainly between 9am and 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 49. Northwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight: Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm.

Tuesday: A chance of showers before 1pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 4pm, then showers after 4pm. High near 56. Southeast wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 35. West wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Southwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. South wind 8 to 10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. North wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. North wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Friday: A chance of showers, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a northwest wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Friday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Saturday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 56. Northwest wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. South wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

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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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Weather Topic: What is Snow?

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Snow is precipitation taking the form of ice crystals. Each ice crystal, or snowflake, has unique characteristics, but all of them grow in a hexagonal structure. Snowfall can last for sustained periods of time and result in significant buildup of snow on the ground.

On the earth's surface, snow starts out light and powdery, but as it begins to melt it tends to become more granular, producing small bits of ice which have the consistency of sand. After several cycles of melting and freezing, snow can become very dense and ice-like, commonly known as snow pack.

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