Forecast Details for Alvord, IA

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Overnight: Showers. Steady temperature around 36. Breezy, with an east wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Thursday: Showers, mainly before 1pm. High near 39. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 15 to 20 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.

Friday: Snow showers before 9am, then freezing rain between 9am and 10am, then rain showers after 10am. Some thunder is also possible. High near 39. East northeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A chance of rain showers before 4am, then a slight chance of snow showers. Some thunder is also possible. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday: A chance of snow showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Blustery.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 54.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Breezy.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Breezy.

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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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