Forecast Details for Pleasant Plains, IL

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Current Alerts for Pleasant Plains, IL: Special Weather Statement

Washington's Birthday: Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 62. South southwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 42. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday Night: A 50 percent chance of rain after midnight. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 55. Breezy, with a south wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 68. West southwest wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Southwest wind around 8 mph becoming east southeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. East southeast wind 8 to 15 mph becoming south southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 47.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37.

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Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?

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Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.

Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall, becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds. When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.

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Weather Topic: What is Evaporation?

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Evaporation is the process which returns water from the earth back to the atmosphere, and is another crucial process in the water cycle.

Evaporation is the transformation of liquid into gas, and it happens because molecules are excited by the application of energy and turn into vapor. In order for water to evaporate it has to be on the surface of a body of water.

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