Forecast Details for Desert Center, CA

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Overnight: Clear, with a steady temperature around 91. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Tuesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 112. Light and variable wind becoming south southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Widespread haze after 9pm. Clear, with a low around 87. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Wednesday: Widespread haze before 9am, then widespread haze after 3pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 111. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 86. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 109. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 81. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Friday: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Sunny, with a high near 104. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 78. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 102. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 78. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light west southwest after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 102. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the morning.

Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 79. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 104. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

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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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