Forecast Details for Monroe, WI

Recent Locations: Hornick, IA Tower City, ND Monroe, WI

Current Alerts for Monroe, WI: Special Weather Statement

Today: Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 7am and 4pm, then showers likely after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night: Showers likely, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 61. West wind around 15 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 67.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.

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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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