Forecast Details for Ekalaka, MT

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Today: Areas of smoke. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. West northwest wind 7 to 14 mph.

Tonight: Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. West northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.

Tuesday: Areas of smoke. Sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 7 mph in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Areas of smoke before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. East wind 10 to 17 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Southeast wind around 18 mph.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. East southeast wind 13 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind around 10 mph.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. South southeast wind around 8 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. South southwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. East northeast wind around 9 mph becoming west southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. West northwest wind 9 to 11 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph becoming east southeast after midnight.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. East southeast wind 8 to 10 mph.

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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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