Forecast Details for Elizabethtown, IL

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Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 61. Light and variable wind.

Thursday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 6 mph in the morning.

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 56. Calm wind.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1am and 4am, then showers likely after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming north northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.

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

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. Calm wind.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. Light east northeast wind.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 6 mph in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Light east southeast wind.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Light east southeast wind.

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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 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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