Forecast Details for Swainsboro, GA

Recent Locations: Swainsboro, GA  
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming east in the evening.
Saturday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. South wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. South wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Monday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with a high near 89.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 92.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.
Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.

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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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