Forecast Details for Laporte, MN

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Current Alerts for Laporte, MN: Winter Storm Watch

Overnight: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Light north northwest wind.

Washington's Birthday: Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 43. Calm wind.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 6 mph after midnight.

Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. East wind 6 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night: Rain, possibly mixed with snow before 9pm, then snow, possibly mixed with rain and freezing rain between 9pm and midnight, then snow after midnight. Low around 28. East wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Wednesday: Snow. High near 34. East wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Wednesday Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming north northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. North northwest wind 6 to 8 mph.

Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. North wind 5 to 7 mph.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. Northwest wind around 6 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 21. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 1. Northwest wind around 7 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 19. North northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.

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Weather Topic: What are Cirrostratus Clouds?

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Cirrostratus clouds are high, thin clouds that form above 20,000 feet and are made mostly of ice crystals. They sometimes look like giant feathers, horse tails, or curls of hair in the sky. These clouds are pushed by the jet stream and can move at high speeds reaching 100 mph.

What do they indicate?
They indicate that a precipitation is likely within 24 hours.

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Weather Topic: What is Condensation?

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Condensation is the process which creates clouds, and therefore it is a crucial process in the water cycle. Condensation is the change of matter from a state of gas into a state of liquid, and it happens because water molecules release heat into the atmosphere and become organized into a more closely packed structure, what we might see as water droplets.

Water is always present in the air around us as a vapor, but it's too small for us to see. When water undergoes the process of condensation it becomes organized into visible water droplets. You've probably seen condensation happen before on the surface of a cold drink!

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