Forecast Details for Salisbury, MA

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This Afternoon: A slight chance of showers before 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 64. North wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: A slight chance of showers before 10pm, then a chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Northeast wind 5 to 9 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: A chance of showers. Patchy fog between 11am and 1pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 40. Northeast wind 10 to 13 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 34. East wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Southwest wind around 7 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. East wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday: Showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Southwest wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday Night: Showers likely, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51. Northwest wind around 10 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. Northwest wind around 7 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 47. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

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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 Next Topic: Snow

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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