Forecast Details for Denver, CO

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Today: A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Light and variable wind becoming east northeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. East wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Increasing clouds, with a high near 77. Light and variable wind becoming west northwest 9 to 14 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.
Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 50. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 21 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Friday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 16 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Friday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Saturday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 55. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Saturday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 40.
Sunday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59.
Sunday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 40.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 71.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78.

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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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