Forecast Details for Denton, MT

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Current Alerts for Denton, MT: High Wind Warning

Today: A 20 percent chance of snow after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Windy, with a northwest wind 26 to 31 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph.

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of snow between 1am and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 13 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Friday: Snow likely, mainly between 7am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph increasing to 27 to 32 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Blustery, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to 13 to 18 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 40. West wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20. North wind 5 to 11 mph becoming east northeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Sunday: A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. East northeast wind 5 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Monday: A chance of snow before 3pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 50.

Monday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 28.

Tuesday: A chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain. Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.

Wednesday: A slight chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 57.

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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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