Forecast Details for Detroit Lakes, MN

Recent Locations: Detroit Lakes, MN

Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Southeast wind around 6 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 60. South southeast wind 8 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. South southeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Friday: A 40 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Southeast wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Friday Night: Rain before 4am, then rain and freezing rain, possibly mixed with snow. Some thunder is also possible. Low around 23. Blustery, with an east wind 8 to 13 mph becoming north northwest 16 to 21 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: Snow, possibly mixed with freezing rain, becoming all snow after 1pm. Patchy blowing snow. High near 26. Blustery, with a northwest wind 23 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow before 1am. Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 10. Blustery, with a northwest wind 22 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.

Sunday: Patchy blowing snow between 9am and noon. Sunny, with a high near 27. Blustery, with a northwest wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 16. West wind 7 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Southeast wind 11 to 13 mph becoming north northeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. North northeast wind 8 to 10 mph.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 36. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. North wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 33. North northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 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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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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