Forecast Details for Silt, CO

Recent Locations: Silt, CO  
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. West wind 5 to 15 mph becoming north northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Breezy, with a light west southwest wind becoming west 15 to 20 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Friday: A 10 percent chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 70. Light and variable wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. West northwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming east after midnight.
Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 43.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.

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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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