Forecast Details for Edison, CA

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Overnight: Mostly clear, with a steady temperature around 60. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 52. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 80. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. North wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. North northeast wind around 5 mph becoming south southeast in the morning.

Friday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Saturday: Rain likely before 11am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 68. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming south southwest in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming north northeast after midnight.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 67. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68. West northwest wind around 5 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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