Forecast Details for Phillips, WI

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Current Alerts for Phillips, WI: Air Quality Alert

Overnight: Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. Calm wind.

Sunday: Areas of smoke. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Monday: Areas of smoke. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Areas of smoke between 7pm and 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the morning.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. South wind around 5 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. South wind around 5 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. South wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 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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