Forecast Details for Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI

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Current Alerts for Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI: Special Weather Statement

Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. North northeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers before 8pm, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. North northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Thursday: A chance of showers before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Northeast wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 77.

Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 57.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 78.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 80.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.

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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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