Forecast Details for Missouri Valley, IA

Recent Locations: Dearing, GA Veteran, WY Missouri Valley, IA

Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. North northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 66. North wind 6 to 8 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44. East wind around 6 mph.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 66. North northeast wind 6 to 10 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 17 mph.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. East wind 6 to 9 mph.

Sunday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 70. East southeast wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 55. Southeast wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Monday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 11 to 16 mph becoming west northwest 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph.

Monday Night: A slight chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. North wind 3 to 7 mph.

Wednesday: A slight chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Light north wind becoming north northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 16 mph.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. North northeast wind around 7 mph.

Thursday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. North wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

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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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