Forecast Details for Racine, MN

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Tonight: Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 1am. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. North wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Widespread dense fog, mainly before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 68. Northeast wind 6 to 10 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. North wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55. South wind 10 to 14 mph.

Friday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Breezy, with a south wind around 22 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday: A chance of rain showers before 10am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 10am and 1pm, then a chance of snow showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a west wind 22 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Blustery, with a northwest wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 47. Breezy, with a northwest wind 14 to 16 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. Northwest wind around 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a southeast wind 10 to 16 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 65. Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 20 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Rain Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain. Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.

Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island. Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of cities is 30% greater.

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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