Forecast Details for Dixmont, ME

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Current Alerts for Dixmont, ME: Winter Weather Advisory

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 46. Northeast wind around 7 mph.

Tonight: Snow and sleet likely before 5am, then a chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Southeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow and sleet accumulation expected.

Friday: Rain or freezing rain likely before 7am, then rain, freezing rain, and sleet likely between 7am and 8am, then rain likely after 8am. Patchy fog between 9am and 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 50. South wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Little or no sleet accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain before 10pm. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Southwest wind 8 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. North wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Saturday Night: A slight chance of rain before 10pm, then rain and sleet likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunday: Rain. High near 48. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Sunday Night: Rain likely, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 47.

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

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 20.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 43.

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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 Next Topic: Snow

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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