Forecast Details for Lastrup, MN

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Today: Scattered showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight: Patchy frost after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 36. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Sunday: Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. South wind around 5 mph.

Monday: A chance of showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. South wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 73. South wind around 5 mph becoming north in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. East wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. East wind around 5 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. East southeast wind around 10 mph.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Southeast wind around 10 mph.

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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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