Forecast Details for Detroit Lakes, MN

Recent Locations: Isle, MN Beaver, WV Detroit Lakes, MN

Overnight: A slight chance of snow before 4am, then a chance of freezing rain between 4am and 5am, then a chance of snow after 5am. Patchy blowing snow after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly before 8am. Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature rising to near 24 by 8am, then falling to around 17 during the remainder of the day. Blustery, with a southwest wind 20 to 29 mph becoming northwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -3. Northwest wind 6 to 16 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 15. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. South wind 3 to 8 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. Southwest wind 9 to 13 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 13 to 22 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -1. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 17 to 22 mph decreasing to 11 to 16 mph after midnight.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 8. North northwest wind 10 to 13 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -10. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east after midnight.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 16. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. South southeast wind 7 to 9 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 28. South wind 9 to 15 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Graupel?

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Graupel Next Topic: Hail

Graupel is a form of precipitation that is created by atmospheric conditions which cause supercooled water droplets to contact snow crystals and freeze to their surface.

Sometimes known as soft hail or snow pellets, graupel is delicate and easily destroyed by touch. Whereas hail usually falls during severe weather, graupel doesn't require such conditions to form, and can form in mild precipitation similar to situations which produce snowfall.

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Weather Topic: What are Hole Punch Clouds?

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Hole Punch Clouds Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds

A hole punch cloud is an unusual occurrence when a disk-shaped hole appears in a cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, or altocumulus cloud.

When part of the cloud forms ice crystals, water droplets in the surrounding area of the cloud evaporate. The effect of this process produces a large elliptical gap in the cloud. The hole punch cloud formation is rare, but it is not specific to any geographic area.

Other names which have been used to describe this phenomena include fallstreak hole, skypunch, and cloud hole.

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