Forecast Details for Tonto Basin, AZ

Recent Locations: Tonto Basin, AZ  
Today: A 30 percent chance of showers after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 75. Breezy, with a light south wind becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a south wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 79. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 53. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 86. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon.
Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 56. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 90. Breezy, with an east wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 58. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 58. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 90. Breezy, with an east wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

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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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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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