Forecast Details for Elliott, IA

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Today: A slight chance of rain between 2pm and 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 48. Windy, with a west northwest wind 24 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: Areas of frost after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 28. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 8 to 13 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Sunday: Areas of frost before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 60. West northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. West northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming north after midnight.

Monday: A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. North wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.

Monday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 10pm, then a chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 26. East wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday: A chance of snow before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Cloudy, with a high near 45. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Breezy, with a southeast wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Windy, with a south wind 22 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. South southwest wind 10 to 16 mph becoming north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: Rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. East northeast wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday Night: Rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. East wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Friday: Rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Southeast wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

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Weather Topic: What are Mammatus Clouds?

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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