Forecast Details for Odell, IL

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Current Alerts for Odell, IL: Red Flag Warning

Overnight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 54. Breezy, with a south southwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 67. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after 3am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 42. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.

Thursday: Rain likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. South southeast wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Thursday Night: Rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west 20 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Breezy.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 22.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 38.

Saturday Night: A chance of snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 33. Breezy.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 16.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 33.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 16.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39.

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Weather Topic: What is Precipitation?

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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Weather Topic: What are Shelf Clouds?

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A shelf cloud is similar to a wall cloud, but forms at the front of a storm cloud, instead of at the rear, where wall clouds form.

A shelf cloud is caused by a series of events set into motion by the advancing storm; first, cool air settles along the ground where precipitation has just fallen. As the cool air is brought in, the warmer air is displaced, and rises above it, because it is less dense. When the warmer air reaches the bottom of the storm cloud, it begins to cool again, and the resulting condensation is a visible shelf cloud.

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