Forecast Details for Georgetown, MA

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Overnight: A slight chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a steady temperature around 46. Southwest wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A chance of showers. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Southwest wind around 8 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Wednesday Night: Showers likely, mainly between 4am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Northeast wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday: A chance of showers. Patchy fog between 9am and 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 40. Northeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 35. East wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. Southwest wind around 8 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday: Showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Southwest wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. West wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Northwest wind around 9 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. Northwest wind around 6 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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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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