Forecast Details for Hixton, WI

Recent Locations: Hixton, WI Garner, IA Greeley, KS

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 22. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Light south wind increasing to 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 72. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 39. Calm wind.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 75. Light east wind becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57. Southeast wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Breezy, with a south wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. South wind 10 to 14 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 61. West wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. West wind 6 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. North wind 3 to 7 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of frost. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 60. Light north wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning.

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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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