Forecast Details for Mariposa, CA

Recent Locations: Mariposa, CA  
Tonight: Showers likely, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 52. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday: Showers likely, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers after 10pm. Patchy fog before 8pm, then patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Calm wind.
Monday: Widespread fog, mainly before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph.
Tuesday: Showers, mainly before 4pm. Patchy fog after 5pm. High near 56. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Widespread fog, mainly between 7pm and 9pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Calm wind.
Christmas Day: Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph.
Wednesday Night: Widespread fog, mainly between 7pm and 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Calm wind.
Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Calm wind.
Friday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Areas of fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph.
Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Widespread fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Calm wind.
Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Widespread fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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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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