Forecast Details for Long Beach, CA

Recent Locations: Long Beach, CA  
Current Alerts for Long Beach, CA: Air Quality Alert High Surf Advisory
This Afternoon: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. West wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight: Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 51. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Friday: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 64. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the morning.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 63.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49.
New Year's Day: Sunny, with a high near 72.

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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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