Forecast Details for Stanford, MT

Recent Locations: Cold Spring Harbor, NY Pierre Part, LA Stanford, MT

Current Alerts for Stanford, MT: High Wind Watch

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. West wind 3 to 6 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Light and variable wind becoming east northeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. East northeast wind 6 to 9 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Southeast wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Windy, with a southwest wind 14 to 19 mph increasing to 27 to 32 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain before 9pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 9pm and midnight, then a chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Windy, with a west northwest wind 21 to 31 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Wednesday: A chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 18 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of snow, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.

Thursday: A chance of snow before 3pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 46.

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

Friday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly sunny, with a high near 52.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow. Partly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Saturday: A chance of rain and snow. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58.

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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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