Forecast Details for West, MS

Recent Locations: Point Reyes Station, CA Beachwood, OH West, MS

Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 95. Heat index values as high as 101. Calm wind. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 9pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 101. Calm wind.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 97. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind.

Monday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind.

Tuesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 5 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 72.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Sunny and hot, with a high near 98.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly clear, with a low around 72.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 95.

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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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