Forecast Details for Liberty Lake, WA

Recent Locations: Middlebury, CT Chapman, KS Liberty Lake, WA

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers. Snow level 4100 feet. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Wednesday: Showers. Snow level 3900 feet rising to 5000 feet in the afternoon. High near 49. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Showers. Snow level 5300 feet lowering to 3600 feet after midnight . Low around 36. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday: Showers. Snow level 2600 feet rising to 3400 feet in the afternoon. High near 46. Southwest wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Snow level 4200 feet lowering to 3400 feet after midnight . Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. South wind 5 to 9 mph.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 53.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 65.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 68.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.

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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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