Forecast Details for Denver, CO

Recent Locations: Denver, CO

Current Alerts for Denver, CO: Air Quality Alert Heat Advisory

Juneteenth: Mostly sunny, with a high near 96. East southeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 65. East southeast wind 6 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 17 mph.

Friday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64. South southwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Saturday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 99. South wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 96.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.

Monday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.

Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.

Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 82.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58.

Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 80.

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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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