Forecast Details for Olton, TX

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Current Alerts for Olton, TX: Red Flag Warning Wind Advisory

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 50. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west northwest after midnight.

Sunday: Areas of blowing dust after 1pm. Sunny, with a high near 88. Windy, with a west southwest wind 10 to 20 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.

Sunday Night: Areas of blowing dust before 9pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 52. Windy, with a southwest wind 25 to 35 mph decreasing to 15 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 50 mph.

Monday: Patchy blowing dust after 10am. Sunny, with a high near 84. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.

Monday Night: Patchy blowing dust before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. West southwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 88. West northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. West wind 5 to 15 mph becoming north after midnight.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 77. North northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 70. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 68.

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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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