Forecast Details for La Junta, CO

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Today: Sunny, with a high near 94. West wind 5 to 15 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 57. East southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 93. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 96. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Southwest wind around 10 mph.

Saturday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly clear, with a low around 53. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 87. West wind around 5 mph becoming south in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 91. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast 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 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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