Forecast Details for Laporte, CO

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Current Alerts for Laporte, CO: Freeze Watch Winter Weather Advisory

Overnight: Mostly clear, with a steady temperature around 41. Breezy, with a west wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Windy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. Windy, with a west northwest wind 17 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Wednesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 17 to 22 mph decreasing to 8 to 13 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph.

Thursday: A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.

Friday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 63.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Saturday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.

Saturday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.

Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

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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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