Forecast Details for Plainfield, WI

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Current Alerts for Plainfield, WI: Ice Storm Warning

Overnight: Freezing rain. Low around 29. East wind around 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.3 of an inch possible.

Thursday: Rain or freezing rain, becoming all rain after 11am. Some thunder is also possible. High near 41. Breezy, with an east wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.3 of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Rain and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of rain between 10pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. East northeast wind 7 to 13 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of rain after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A chance of rain and thunderstorms before 7pm, then rain and possibly a thunderstorm between 7pm and 4am, then rain after 4am. Low around 32. East wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 47.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 30. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 46.

Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 21.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 44.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 57.

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Weather Topic: What is Precipitation?

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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Weather Topic: What are Shelf Clouds?

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A shelf cloud is similar to a wall cloud, but forms at the front of a storm cloud, instead of at the rear, where wall clouds form.

A shelf cloud is caused by a series of events set into motion by the advancing storm; first, cool air settles along the ground where precipitation has just fallen. As the cool air is brought in, the warmer air is displaced, and rises above it, because it is less dense. When the warmer air reaches the bottom of the storm cloud, it begins to cool again, and the resulting condensation is a visible shelf cloud.

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