Forecast Details for Plainfield, IN

Recent Locations: Plainfield, IN  
Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 64. North northeast wind around 7 mph.
Saturday: Isolated showers between 1pm and 2pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. East northeast wind around 6 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. South southwest wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph.
Sunday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. North wind around 7 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Monday: Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. East wind 6 to 10 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Monday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. South wind around 10 mph.
Tuesday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 80. South southwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Tuesday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Low around 64. South southwest wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms. Low around 64. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78.
Thursday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 56.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.

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Cirrostratus clouds are high, thin clouds that form above 20,000 feet and are made mostly of ice crystals. They sometimes look like giant feathers, horse tails, or curls of hair in the sky. These clouds are pushed by the jet stream and can move at high speeds reaching 100 mph.

What do they indicate?
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Condensation is the process which creates clouds, and therefore it is a crucial process in the water cycle. Condensation is the change of matter from a state of gas into a state of liquid, and it happens because water molecules release heat into the atmosphere and become organized into a more closely packed structure, what we might see as water droplets.

Water is always present in the air around us as a vapor, but it's too small for us to see. When water undergoes the process of condensation it becomes organized into visible water droplets. You've probably seen condensation happen before on the surface of a cold drink!

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