Forecast Details for Garden City, ID

Recent Locations: West Coxsackie, NY Wilkesboro, NC Garden City, ID

Today: Patchy smoke before 9am. Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 96. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight: Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 71. West northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers after noon. Patchy smoke after 3pm. Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 90. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. West northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tuesday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Thursday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 85.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 88.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 84.

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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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