Forecast Details for Silver Lake, WI

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Current Alerts for Silver Lake, WI: Ice Storm Warning

Overnight: Rain or freezing rain, becoming all freezing rain after 4am. Low around 31. East wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.2 of an inch possible.

Thursday: Rain or freezing rain, becoming all rain after 10am. Some thunder is also possible. High near 45. East wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.2 of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Rain and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of rain between 10pm and midnight. Low around 32. Northeast wind 8 to 11 mph becoming west in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of rain after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. West northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain and thunderstorms before 7pm, then rain and possibly a thunderstorm between 7pm and 1am, then rain after 1am. Low around 33. East wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of rain before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Monday: A slight chance of snow before 1pm, then a chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 48. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 45.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 58.

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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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