Forecast Details for Cliffside Park, NJ

Recent Locations: Cliffside Park, NJ

Overnight: A 50 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 59. North wind around 7 mph.

Friday: Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. High near 61. Northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 50. West wind 10 to 13 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 72.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 73.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 77.

Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62.

Wednesday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 72.

Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78.

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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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Weather Topic: What is Snow?

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Snow is precipitation taking the form of ice crystals. Each ice crystal, or snowflake, has unique characteristics, but all of them grow in a hexagonal structure. Snowfall can last for sustained periods of time and result in significant buildup of snow on the ground.

On the earth's surface, snow starts out light and powdery, but as it begins to melt it tends to become more granular, producing small bits of ice which have the consistency of sand. After several cycles of melting and freezing, snow can become very dense and ice-like, commonly known as snow pack.

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