Forecast Details for Elliott, IA

Recent Locations: Terre Haute, IN Dothan, AL Elliott, IA

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. West northwest wind 5 to 13 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.

Friday: Rain and thunderstorms likely, then rain and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. High near 67. East wind 15 to 17 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 27. Blustery, with a northwest wind 13 to 18 mph decreasing to 7 to 12 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 59. West northwest wind 6 to 14 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. North northwest wind 6 to 8 mph.

Monday: A chance of rain, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52. North wind 6 to 13 mph.

Monday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow before 1am, then a slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Northeast wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Tuesday: A slight chance of rain after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 51. Breezy, with a southeast wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a southeast wind 17 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. Windy, with a south wind 21 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 14 to 20 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

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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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