Forecast Details for Oxford, NC

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Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. West wind 3 to 8 mph.

Saturday: A chance of rain, mainly between noon and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Saturday Night: Rain likely after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 40. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Sunday: Rain, mainly before 1pm. High near 47. Northwest wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain, mixing with snow after 10pm, then gradually ending. Partly cloudy, with a low around 30. Northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 43.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 46.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59.

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

Thursday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Thursday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Friday: 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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