Forecast Details for Macedonia, IA

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Overnight: Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 43. East wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Thursday: Rain and thunderstorms before 2pm, then a slight chance of rain between 2pm and 3pm. High near 58. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 13 to 20 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 37. West northwest wind 6 to 13 mph becoming east after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Friday: A chance of rain and thunderstorms, then rain and possibly a thunderstorm after 10am. High near 63. Breezy, with an east wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 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 20 percent chance of rain before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a northwest wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 49. Windy, with a west northwest wind 18 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 28. Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 8 to 13 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 59. Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. North northwest wind around 8 mph.

Monday: A slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. North northeast wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Monday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North northeast wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Tuesday: A slight chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 21 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Windy, with a south wind 21 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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