Forecast Details for Orient, IA

Recent Locations: Altona, IL Fitzpatrick, AL Orient, IA

Today: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 43. North wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 8pm, then a chance of rain showers between 8pm and 10pm, then snow showers likely after 10pm. Cloudy, with a low around 27. Northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Tuesday: Snow showers likely before 1pm, then rain and snow showers likely between 1pm and 4pm, then rain showers likely after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 41. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 67. Windy, with a south wind 22 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Thursday: Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Thursday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.

Friday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 61.

Friday Night: Showers likely, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 56. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

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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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