Forecast Details for Aberdeen, SD

Recent Locations: Port Washington, NY Willow Island, NE Aberdeen, SD

Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Areas of smoke. Cloudy, with a high near 76. South southeast wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2am. Patchy smoke before 8pm, then patchy smoke after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Southeast wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon, then a slight chance of showers between noon and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy smoke before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. South southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Southeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Monday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Southeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Monday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then a slight chance of showers between 1am and 4am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. East wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday: A slight chance of thunderstorms before 7am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. South southeast wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. South southeast wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Wednesday: A slight chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. South southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers after 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 64. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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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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