Forecast Details for Santa Clara, CA

Recent Locations: Augusta, GA Spokane, WA Santa Clara, CA

Overnight: Areas of fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Calm wind.

Friday: Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming north northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. Light and variable wind.

Saturday: Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. South southeast wind around 8 mph.

Sunday: Rain likely, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Washington's Birthday: Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 55.

Monday Night: Rain. Cloudy, with a low around 41.

Tuesday: Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 52.

Tuesday Night: Rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.

Wednesday: Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.

Wednesday Night: Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.

Thursday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 56.

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Weather Topic: What are Hole Punch Clouds?

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Hole Punch Clouds Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds

A hole punch cloud is an unusual occurrence when a disk-shaped hole appears in a cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, or altocumulus cloud.

When part of the cloud forms ice crystals, water droplets in the surrounding area of the cloud evaporate. The effect of this process produces a large elliptical gap in the cloud. The hole punch cloud formation is rare, but it is not specific to any geographic area.

Other names which have been used to describe this phenomena include fallstreak hole, skypunch, and cloud hole.

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Weather Topic: What are Nimbostratus Clouds?

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Nimbostratus Clouds Next Topic: Precipitation

A nimbostratus cloud is similar to a stratus cloud in its formless, smooth appearance. However, a nimbostratus cloud is darker than a stratus cloud, because it is thicker.

Unlike a stratus cloud, a nimbostratus cloud typically brings with it the threat of moderate to heavy precipitation. In some cases, the precipitation may evaporate before reaching the ground, a phenomenon known as virga.

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