Forecast Details for Hancock, MI

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Current Alerts for Hancock, MI: Winter Storm Warning Winter Storm Watch

Tonight: Snow and sleet before midnight, then snow, freezing rain, and sleet likely. Low around 27. Breezy, with a northeast wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Total nighttime snow and sleet accumulation of around an inch possible.

Friday: A 10 percent chance of snow before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. North wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Friday Night: Freezing rain and sleet, possibly mixed with snow before 5am, then freezing rain, possibly mixed with sleet. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 30. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.3 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Saturday: Freezing rain, possibly mixed with sleet before 8am, then freezing rain and sleet, possibly mixed with snow between 8am and 11am, then rain and snow after 11am. High near 36. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Saturday Night: Rain and snow showers, becoming all snow after 11pm. Low around 27. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of snow showers before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 38.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.

Monday: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 33.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.

Wednesday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Thursday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42.

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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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