Forecast Details for Walkertown, NC

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Current Alerts for Walkertown, NC: Special Weather Statement

Tonight: Patchy drizzle before 1am, then patchy drizzle with a slight chance of showers after 1am. Areas of fog before 1am, then areas of fog after 5am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 53. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday: Patchy drizzle with a chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers between 8am and noon. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 73. Light southwest wind becoming west 11 to 16 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain after 4am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 48. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: Rain likely, mainly between 10am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Light and variable wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunday: A chance of rain before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 48. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 26.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 50.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62.

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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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