Forecast Details for Readstown, WI

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Current Alerts for Readstown, WI: Flood Warning

Today: A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a slight chance of showers after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 45. Breezy, with a light and variable wind becoming west 12 to 17 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Breezy, with a northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday: Isolated showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 52. West wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday Night: Isolated showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 18. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light north after midnight.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. South wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Wednesday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 64. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. South wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 60. West wind around 10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Thursday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. East wind around 8 mph.

Friday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

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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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