Forecast Details for Abington, MA

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Overnight: Patchy fog before 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Southwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of showers. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. Southwest wind 8 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Showers likely, mainly after midnight. Patchy fog before 3am, then patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Northeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Thursday: A chance of showers. Patchy fog between 9am and noon. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 41. Northeast wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers, mainly before 5am. Patchy fog before 9pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 36. East wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 66. West wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. East wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. South wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Sunday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Northwest wind around 9 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon.

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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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