Forecast Details for Telluride, CO

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Today: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. High near 62. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Tonight: Scattered showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then isolated showers between midnight and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Sunday: Isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 40. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.

Monday: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the morning.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 41.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.

Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.

Thursday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Friday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60.

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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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