Forecast Details for Prairie City, SD

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Current Alerts for Prairie City, SD: Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: A chance of snow and freezing rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Wind chill values as low as 12. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 24 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: Snow likely, possibly mixed with freezing rain, becoming all snow after 9am. Patchy blowing snow before 8am, then patchy blowing snow after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 35. Wind chill values as low as 12. Breezy, with a southeast wind 22 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 27. Wind chill values as low as 15. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: A chance of snow before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of rain after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 40. Wind chill values as low as 17. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Thursday Night: Rain likely before 9pm, then rain and snow likely between 9pm and midnight, then snow after midnight. Low around 25. Breezy, with an east wind 14 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Friday: Snow. High near 32. Northeast wind 14 to 16 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.

Friday Night: Snow, mainly before midnight. Low around 22. Northwest wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Breezy.

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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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Weather Topic: What are Stratocumulus Clouds?

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Stratocumulus clouds are similar to altocumulus clouds in their fluffy appearance, but have a slightly darker shade due to their additional mass.

A good way to distinguish the two cloud types is to hold your hand out and measure the size of an individual cloud; if it is the size of your thumb it is generally an altocumulus cloud, if it is the size of your hand it is generally a stratocumulus cloud.

It is uncommon for stratocumulus clouds to produce precipitation, but if they do it is usually a light rain or snow.

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