Forecast Details for Burlington, MA

Recent Locations: Burlington, MA  
Tonight: Showers, mainly before 5am. Patchy fog after 3am. Low around 44. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday: A chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 55. Northeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Thursday: A chance of showers, mainly between 9am and 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 66. South wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. North wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Northeast wind 10 to 13 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. East wind 6 to 9 mph.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. East wind 8 to 11 mph.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Sunday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. South wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 72. West wind 8 to 11 mph.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. West wind 9 to 13 mph.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 72. West wind 9 to 13 mph.

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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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