Forecast Details for Whitman, MA

Recent Locations: Whitman, MA

Overnight: Areas of fog after 2am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 47. Light north wind.

Saturday: Areas of fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 50. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph.

Saturday Night: Showers likely, mainly after 4am. Areas of fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 42. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday: Rain before 4pm, then rain and snow likely. Some thunder is also possible. Patchy fog before 9am, then patchy fog after 11am. High near 57. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Sunday Night: Rain and snow likely before 8pm, then a chance of rain between 8pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. West wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Monday: A slight chance of rain after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 46. West wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. North wind around 6 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 51. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. Southwest wind around 6 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 7 to 9 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 60. North wind 5 to 8 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. West wind 3 to 5 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming north in the afternoon.

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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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