Forecast Details for Wayne, NE

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Current Alerts for Wayne, NE: Fire Weather Watch

Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 42. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Tuesday: A slight chance of drizzle before 4pm, then a chance of sprinkles between 4pm and 5pm, then a slight chance of rain after 5pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 11 to 21 mph becoming south southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain before midnight. Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 61. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph becoming north northeast in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: Snow likely, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Thursday Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 15. Blustery, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 13. Northwest wind around 7 mph.

Saturday: A slight chance of snow. Mostly sunny, with a high near 38. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 13. North northwest wind around 7 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 35. North northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 12. North northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

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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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