Forecast Details for Montpelier, VT

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Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Calm wind.

Thursday: A slight chance of rain showers, snow showers, and sleet before 11am, then a slight chance of rain showers and sleet between 11am and noon, then a chance of rain showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow and sleet accumulation expected.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain showers and sleet before 7pm, then rain showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 33. South wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of showers before 2pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 64. South wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Southwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Light and variable wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Saturday Night: Showers likely, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Sunday: Showers, mainly before 2pm. High near 56. South wind around 7 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind around 6 mph.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Calm wind.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 40. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 20. Calm wind.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 43. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

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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 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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