Forecast Details for Cascade, CO

Recent Locations: Duke, OK Molt, MT Cascade, CO

Current Alerts for Cascade, CO: Freeze Warning

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 61. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west northwest after midnight.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. West northwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southeast in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Windy, with a southwest wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a west wind around 25 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.

Friday: A chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. South southeast wind around 15 mph.

Friday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. South wind around 10 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.

Saturday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. North northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south southeast 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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Shelf Clouds Next Topic: Sleet

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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