Forecast Details for Olathe, KS

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Current Alerts for Olathe, KS: Wind Advisory

Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 57. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Sunday: A chance of rain before 3pm, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 35 by 5pm. Windy, with a south southwest wind 18 to 23 mph becoming northwest 27 to 32 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: A chance of snow, mainly before 7pm. Patchy blowing snow before 7pm. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 13. Wind chill values between -3 and 7. Blustery, with a northwest wind 24 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 30. Wind chill values between -4 and 6. Blustery, with a northwest wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Monday Night: Increasing clouds, with a low around 16. North northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 81.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 50.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 79.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.

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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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Hole Punch Clouds Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds

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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