Forecast Details for Inchelium, WA

Recent Locations: Elgin, OR Churubusco, IN Inchelium, WA

Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight: Rain and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then rain likely between 2am and 5am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. South wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8am, then rain likely, mainly between 8am and 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Light west wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain before 11pm. Snow level 6400 feet lowering to 3400 feet after midnight . Partly cloudy, with a low around 43. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of rain. Snow level 2600 feet rising to 3900 feet in the afternoon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. North wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.

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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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