Forecast Details for Providence, RI

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Tonight: A slight chance of showers. Areas of fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 58. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 72. East wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 60. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 83. Light west wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 66. Southwest wind around 6 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 84. West wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. West wind 3 to 6 mph.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: A chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday: A chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 68. Northeast wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. Northeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. South wind 3 to 8 mph.

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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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