Forecast Details for Waynesboro, VA

Recent Locations: Waynesboro, VA

Overnight: Rain before 5am, then rain, possibly mixed with snow. Low around 37. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Sunday: Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 4pm. High near 37. Light north wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday Night: A chance of snow, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Northwest wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 22. Northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Thursday: Rain likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 52.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 56.

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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 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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