Forecast Details for Ghent, MN

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Overnight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 64. West wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday: A chance of rain and thunderstorms before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. West southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tuesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1am, then a chance of showers. Areas of smoke after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Areas of smoke between 8am and 4pm. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 61. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42. North northwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. West southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 65.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 71.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 53.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 72.

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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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