Forecast Details for Belfield, ND

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Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. Calm wind.

Tuesday: Areas of smoke after noon. Sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 7 mph in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Areas of smoke. Mostly clear, with a low around 53. East wind 7 to 10 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with a southeast wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Southeast wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon, then a chance of showers between noon and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Southeast wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Southeast wind 7 to 11 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. East wind 7 to 9 mph.

Saturday: Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 70. East wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. East wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. Southeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

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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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