Forecast Details for Plant City, FL

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This Afternoon: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. East wind around 8 mph.

Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 65. East wind 3 to 7 mph.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. High near 86. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. South southeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Monday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 8am. High near 83. Breezy, with a south wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Monday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 2am. Low around 45. North northwest wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. North wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. North northeast wind around 7 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 68. North northeast wind around 9 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.

Friday: 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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