Forecast Details for Towaco, NJ

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Current Alerts for Towaco, NJ: Air Quality Alert

Today: Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 41. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight: A chance of rain before 5am, then a chance of rain and sleet. Cloudy, with a low around 33. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected.

Friday: Rain and snow likely before 7am, then rain, possibly mixed with snow and sleet between 7am and 10am, then rain after 10am. High near 40. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no snow and sleet accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A chance of rain before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Saturday: A slight chance of rain after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 10pm, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Sunday Night: A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 28. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Monday: A chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 36.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 21.

Wednesday: 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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