Forecast Details for Lafayette, LA

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Overnight: Areas of dense fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Calm wind.

Friday: Areas of dense fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night: Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers after noon. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 75. South wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Saturday Night: Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 9pm. Low around 62. South wind 15 to 20 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 3pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. North wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Washington's Birthday: Sunny, with a high near 70. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. Calm wind.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79.

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Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?

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Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.

Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall, becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds. When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.

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Weather Topic: What is Evaporation?

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Evaporation is the process which returns water from the earth back to the atmosphere, and is another crucial process in the water cycle.

Evaporation is the transformation of liquid into gas, and it happens because molecules are excited by the application of energy and turn into vapor. In order for water to evaporate it has to be on the surface of a body of water.

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