Forecast Details for Palo, MI

Recent Locations: Norwood, PA Oxford, MI Palo, MI

Today: Showers, mainly before 1pm. Temperature falling to around 56 by 5pm. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight: Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 34. West northwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 14 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Southwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 65. West southwest wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 40.

Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 57.

Tuesday Night: Showers. Cloudy, with a low around 35.

Wednesday: Rain showers likely before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 43.

Wednesday Night: A chance of snow showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40.

Thursday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.

Friday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Breezy.

Want more detail? Get the Complete 7 Day and Night Detailed Forecast!

Current U.S. National Radar--Current

The Current National Weather Radar is shown below with a UTC Time (subtract 5 hours from UTC to get Eastern Time).

National Weather Forecast--Current

The Current National Weather Forecast and National Weather Map are shown below.

National Weather Forecast for Tomorrow

Tomorrow National Weather Forecast and Tomorrow National Weather Map are show below.

North America Water Vapor (Moisture)

This map shows recent moisture content over North America. Bright and colored areas show high moisture (ie, clouds); brown indicates very little moisture present; black indicates no moisture.

Weather Topic: What is Rain?

Home - Education - Precipitation - Rain

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.

Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

Home - Education - Precipitation - Sleet

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.

Next Topic: Snow