Forecast Details for Tortilla Flat, AZ

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Current Alerts for Tortilla Flat, AZ: Air Quality Alert Dust Advisory
Flash Flood Warning Severe Thunderstorm Warning

Tonight: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 77. South wind around 5 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 93. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the morning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 11pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11pm and 2am, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 11pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. East wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. East southeast wind around 5 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Saturday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 74. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 97. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 76. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 98. East southeast wind around 5 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 97. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.

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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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