Forecast Details for Santa Cruz, CA

Recent Locations: Berlin, CT Maribel, WI Santa Cruz, CA

Overnight: A 40 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. Light west southwest wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunday: A slight chance of drizzle before 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 3 to 8 mph.

Sunday Night: Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Monday: A slight chance of drizzle before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 46. West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Tuesday: Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 70.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 74.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 72.

Thursday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 50.

Friday: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 72.

Friday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 51.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 71.

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Weather Topic: What are Wall Clouds?

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Wall Clouds Next Topic: Altocumulus Clouds

A wall cloud forms underneath the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, and can be a hotbed for deadly tornadoes.

Wall clouds are formed by air flowing into the cumulonimbus clouds, which can result in the wall cloud descending from the base of the cumulonimbus cloud, or rising fractus clouds which join to the base of the storm cloud as the wall cloud takes shape.

Wall clouds can be very large, and in the Northern Hemisphere they generally form at the southern edge of cumulonimbus clouds.

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Weather Topic: What are Altostratus Clouds?

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Altostratus clouds form at mid to high-level altitudes (between 2 and 7 km) and are created by a warm, stable air mass which causes water vapor to condense as it rise through the atmosphere. Usually altostratus clouds are featureless sheets characterized by a uniform color.

In some cases, wind punching through the cloud formation may give it a waved appearance, called altostratus undulatus. Altostratus clouds are commonly seen with other cloud formations accompanying them.

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