Forecast Details for Essex, MA

Recent Locations: Essex, MA  
Tonight: A chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. South wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday: Showers, mainly before 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. High near 60. Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 39. West wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 57. West wind around 11 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39. West wind around 11 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36. Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. South wind 8 to 16 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. South wind 15 to 17 mph.
Wednesday: A chance of rain after 9am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. South wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Wednesday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. South wind around 18 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. West wind around 16 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 37. Northwest wind around 14 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 11 to 13 mph.

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Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?

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Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.

Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall, becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds. When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.

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Weather Topic: What is Evaporation?

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Evaporation is the process which returns water from the earth back to the atmosphere, and is another crucial process in the water cycle.

Evaporation is the transformation of liquid into gas, and it happens because molecules are excited by the application of energy and turn into vapor. In order for water to evaporate it has to be on the surface of a body of water.

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