Forecast Details for Menomonee Falls, WI

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Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 60. Breezy, with an east wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Low around 49. Windy, with a southeast wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Wednesday: Showers and thunderstorms before 4pm, then a chance of showers. High near 64. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. West wind around 10 mph.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 41. West wind 10 to 15 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 50.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 60.

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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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