Forecast Details for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ

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Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 83. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 109. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 82. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 15 mph becoming east northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 108. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 81. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northeast after midnight.

Saturday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 110. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 83. West wind around 5 mph becoming north after midnight.

Sunday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 113. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 84. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Monday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 111. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 82. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 107. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 82. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 106. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.

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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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Shelf Clouds Next Topic: Sleet

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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