Forecast Details for Nice, CA

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Current Alerts for Nice, CA: Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: A 40 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 43. Light south southwest wind.

Wednesday: Showers. High near 55. Southwest wind 5 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Showers, mainly before 11pm. Low around 37. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 37. Northwest wind 5 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 75. North northeast wind around 7 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 79.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 81.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 77.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 46.

Tuesday: A slight chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72.

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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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