Forecast Details for Aurora, NC

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Tonight: Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 70. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Sunday: A slight chance of showers before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming northeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 65. North wind around 7 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday: A slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Northeast wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: A chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. Northeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Wednesday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 79.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.

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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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