Forecast Details for Peoria, AZ

Recent Locations: Sanborn-Skyline County Park, CA Peoria, AZ

Current Alerts for Peoria, AZ: Air Quality Alert

Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 75. East northeast wind around 10 mph.

Sunday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 103. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 75. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 99. Breezy, with a light and variable wind becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 71. Breezy, with a southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Breezy, with a southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 86. Light southwest wind becoming west southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 92. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

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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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