Forecast Details for Cathay, ND

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This Afternoon: Mostly sunny, with a high near 39. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tonight: A slight chance of freezing rain after 4am, mixing with snow after 5am. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly clear, then becoming mostly cloudy toward daybreak, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of snow before 8am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 38. Windy, with a northwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 20. North wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 30. North wind 8 to 10 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 17. South wind 6 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Windy, with a south wind 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain and snow before 1am, then a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Windy, with a south wind 22 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of rain before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 44. Windy, with a west wind 18 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Northwest wind around 14 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Southeast wind around 11 mph.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Southeast wind 11 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.

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Weather Topic: What are Mammatus Clouds?

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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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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