Forecast Details for Clearwater, FL

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Overnight: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Southwest wind around 7 mph.

Sunday: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1pm, then a slight chance of showers between 1pm and 2pm. Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a temperature rising to near 70 by 10am, then falling to around 60 during the remainder of the day. Windy, with a southwest wind 7 to 12 mph becoming north northwest 16 to 21 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 54. Wind chill values as low as 39 early. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 40. North wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 57. North northeast wind around 7 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Light and variable wind.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 68. Calm wind becoming south southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53. South wind 3 to 5 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 73.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 76.

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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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