Forecast Details for Coventry, RI

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Overnight: Showers likely, mainly before 4am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 52. Northeast wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Thursday: A chance of showers, mainly before 8am. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 68. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Northeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 78. North wind 10 to 14 mph.

Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 58. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64. South wind around 8 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. South wind 8 to 13 mph.

Sunday Night: A chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Monday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. South wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Monday Night: A chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 77. West wind 6 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55. West wind around 7 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 74. West wind 6 to 9 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 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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