Forecast Details for Sperryville, VA

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Current Alerts for Sperryville, VA: Special Weather Statement

Overnight: A chance of sprinkles. Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. Light west wind.

Monday: A chance of sprinkles. Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Widespread frost after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 29. Calm wind.

Tuesday: Widespread frost before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. Light south wind.

Wednesday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Wednesday Night: Showers likely before 8pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 50. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 79.

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

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.

Friday Night: A chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

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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 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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