Forecast Details for Highmore, SD

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Current Alerts for Highmore, SD: Winter Storm Warning

Tonight: Freezing rain, mainly after 2am. Low around 27. East wind 9 to 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of around a 0.2 of an inch possible.

Friday: Snow and freezing rain, possibly mixed with sleet before 11am, then snow, possibly mixed with freezing rain between 11am and noon, then snow after noon. Patchy blowing snow after 1pm. High near 33. East wind 16 to 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Friday Night: Snow, mainly after 7pm. Patchy blowing snow after midnight. Low around 26. Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Saturday: A chance of snow before 1pm. Patchy blowing snow before 4pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. West wind 10 to 14 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. West northwest wind 13 to 15 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. North northwest wind 8 to 11 mph.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 36. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. East southeast wind around 16 mph.

Tuesday: A slight chance of snow before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Breezy.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Breezy.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. 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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