Forecast Details for Shell Lake, WI

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Current Alerts for Shell Lake, WI: Air Quality Alert

This Afternoon: A chance of sprinkles after 4pm. Areas of smoke before 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a steady temperature around 76. South wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: A chance of sprinkles before midnight, then a chance of sprinkles after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph.

Monday: A chance of sprinkles before 8am, then a chance of sprinkles after 11am. Areas of smoke before 2pm, then areas of smoke after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 79. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Monday Night: Areas of smoke before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Wednesday: A slight chance of showers before 10am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 10am and 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. South wind around 5 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 70. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

Saturday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 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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