Forecast Details for Norfolk, VA

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Today: A slight chance of snow before 7am. Partly sunny, with a high near 36. North wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. North wind 7 to 9 mph.

Friday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 40. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 1am, then a slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Light southwest wind becoming northwest 6 to 11 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 34. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 46 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 15. Blustery.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 31.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 51.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.

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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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