Forecast Details for Los Angeles, CA

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Today: Patchy drizzle and fog before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light south southwest after midnight.

Saturday: Rain, mainly after 11am. High near 62. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Light west southwest wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 70.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 75.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 73.

Wednesday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.

Thursday: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 73.

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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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