Forecast Details for Chilhowie, VA

Recent Locations: Chilhowie, VA  
Today: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 54. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Southwest wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday: A slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 82.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 58.
Friday: A chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Saturday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

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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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