Forecast Details for Balta, ND

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Overnight: Areas of smoke. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. North wind 6 to 9 mph.

Wednesday: Areas of smoke before 9am. Partly sunny, with a high near 58. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light and variable.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. Windy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest 24 to 29 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 39 mph.

Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Windy, with a northwest wind 16 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Friday Night: Patchy frost after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 35. Northwest wind 6 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Saturday: Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 37. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 69. South wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. South wind 8 to 10 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. South wind 8 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. North wind 7 to 10 mph becoming east after midnight.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 73.

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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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