Forecast Details for Oakes, ND

Recent Locations: River Falls, AL Canisteo, NY Oakes, ND

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to 14 to 19 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 41 mph.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. Northwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Sunday: Patchy frost before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. Southeast wind 6 to 8 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. South wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. South wind around 7 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. South wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. East wind 6 to 8 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 78. East wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. East wind 9 to 11 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 79.

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Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?

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Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.

Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall, becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds. When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.

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Weather Topic: What is Evaporation?

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Evaporation is the process which returns water from the earth back to the atmosphere, and is another crucial process in the water cycle.

Evaporation is the transformation of liquid into gas, and it happens because molecules are excited by the application of energy and turn into vapor. In order for water to evaporate it has to be on the surface of a body of water.

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