Forecast Details for Emerson, NE

Recent Locations: Brownville, NE Rumford, ME Emerson, NE

Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3am. Areas of smoke before 11pm, then areas of smoke after 2am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 60. South southeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11am. Areas of smoke between 1pm and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. South southeast wind around 10 mph.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. South wind around 10 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. South southeast wind around 10 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 87.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 71.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.

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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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