Forecast Details for Lake City, SD

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Tonight: A chance of showers, mainly between 9pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Breezy, with a northwest wind 23 to 28 mph decreasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 49 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A slight chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. West northwest wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light in the evening.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 63. West southwest wind 3 to 6 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. South wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. South wind 7 to 9 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

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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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