Forecast Details for North Hatfield, MA

Recent Locations: Alexander, ND Boone, IA North Hatfield, MA

Today: Areas of dense freezing fog before 10am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 48. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph.

Tonight: Areas of fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 18. Calm wind.

Thursday: A chance of rain, mainly after 10am. Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 44. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Rain before 2am, then rain, possibly mixed with freezing rain. Low around 32. Northeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Friday: Rain or freezing rain before 9am, then a chance of rain between 9am and 4pm. High near 41. Northeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 33. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: A chance of rain after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. South wind 6 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: Rain likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. South wind 6 to 9 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. West wind around 6 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Southwest wind 3 to 5 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 60. Southwest wind 5 to 8 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 37. South wind 3 to 5 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph.

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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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