Forecast Details for Murdo, SD

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Current Alerts for Murdo, SD: Winter Weather Advisory

Tonight: Rain or freezing rain likely before 2am, then freezing rain between 2am and 5am, then rain after 5am. Low around 30. East wind 9 to 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of around a 0.2 of an inch possible.

Friday: Snow, freezing rain, and sleet, becoming all snow after 8am. High near 34. East southeast wind 14 to 18 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night: Snow. Patchy blowing snow after 10pm. Low around 25. Blustery, with a northwest wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.

Saturday: A slight chance of snow before 1pm. Patchy blowing snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 51. Northwest wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. North northeast wind 6 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: A slight chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. East northeast wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. East wind around 18 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Breezy.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Breezy.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Thursday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

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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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