Forecast Details for Power, MT

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Current Alerts for Power, MT: High Wind Watch

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. East northeast wind 7 to 13 mph.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 55. Northeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Southeast wind 6 to 13 mph becoming south southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Windy, with a south southwest wind 14 to 24 mph increasing to 30 to 40 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 65 mph.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain and snow before 9pm, then a chance of snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. Windy, with a west northwest wind 27 to 37 mph decreasing to 13 to 23 mph. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 54. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 26.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 65.

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

Saturday: A slight chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Sunday: A chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 50.

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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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Shelf Clouds Next Topic: Sleet

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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