Forecast Details for Comptche, CA

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Overnight: A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. West northwest wind around 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers before 8am. Sunny, with a high near 61. Light north northwest wind becoming northwest 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Patchy fog between 11pm and 2am. Patchy frost after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 36. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.

Friday: Areas of frost before 11am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 78. Light and variable wind.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 46.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.

Monday Night: A chance of rain. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 45.

Tuesday: A chance of rain. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 68.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 45.

Wednesday: A chance of rain. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 67.

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Weather Topic: What are Mammatus Clouds?

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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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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