Forecast Details for Onyx, CA

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Overnight: A 50 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 46. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 68. Windy, with a west southwest wind 10 to 20 mph increasing to 25 to 35 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of rain before 11am. Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 65. Windy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph increasing to 25 to 30 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42. Windy, with a west wind 20 to 30 mph becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 72. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. North northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. East southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming north in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 82. North wind 5 to 15 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53. South southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming south southwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 81. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 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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