Forecast Details for Moses Lake, WA

Recent Locations: Moses Lake, WA

Overnight: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 4am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Northwest wind around 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 71. West wind 6 to 8 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 46. West wind 6 to 8 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. West wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. West wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48.

Saturday: A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 71.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 77.

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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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