Forecast Details for Zearing, IA

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Current Alerts for Zearing, IA: Freeze Warning

Tonight: Clear, with a low around 28. North northwest wind 6 to 10 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Monday: Widespread frost before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 63. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 6 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. South wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 79. South southwest wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 50. North wind around 6 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Breezy.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Breezy.

Thursday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Breezy.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 60.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 59.

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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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