Forecast Details for New York City, NY

Recent Locations: New York City, NY

Overnight: A 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a steady temperature around 53. South wind 3 to 5 mph.

Monday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 66. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 45. South wind around 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers before 8am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Northwest wind around 8 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 50.

Wednesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 46.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 71.

Thursday Night: Showers likely, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Showers likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48.

Saturday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.

Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Sunday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.

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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 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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