Forecast Details for Denver International Airport, CO

Recent Locations: Denver International Airport, CO  
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. South southeast wind around 7 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 57. South wind around 7 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. South southwest wind 5 to 7 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 54. South wind 5 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. South southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.
Christmas Day: A 40 percent chance of rain after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44.
Wednesday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 10pm, then a chance of snow between 10pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 49.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of rain after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Friday: A slight chance of snow before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 48.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 27.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 52.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58.

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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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