Forecast Details for Benedict, MN

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Overnight: Clear, with a steady temperature around 70. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 91. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.

Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 62. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 92. South wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 61. South southeast wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 86. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southeast wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Thursday: Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. High near 74. East southeast wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. South southwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. West northwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Friday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 52. Northwest wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 55. North wind 5 to 8 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 Next Topic: Snow

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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