Forecast Details for Hampton, VA

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Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. North wind 7 to 9 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of rain and snow between 3pm and 5pm, then a slight chance of rain after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 41. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night: A slight chance of rain before 7pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 7pm and 1am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 23. Southwest wind 5 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Saturday: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 32. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph increasing to 27 to 32 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph.

Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 15. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 30.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 21.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 38.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 44.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34.

Wednesday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.

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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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