Forecast Details for Bridgeport, CT

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Current Alerts for Bridgeport, CT: Extreme Cold Warning Wind Advisory

Overnight: Snow. Steady temperature around 24. Wind chill values between 15 and 20. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Saturday: Snow, mainly before 7am. Temperature falling to around 12 by 5pm. Wind chill values between -10 and zero. Blustery, with a northwest wind 13 to 18 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Saturday Night: Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 3. Wind chill values between -10 and -15. Windy, with a northwest wind 21 to 26 mph decreasing to 14 to 19 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 44 mph.

Sunday: Sunny and cold, with a high near 20. Wind chill values between -5 and -15. Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 6. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 28.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 32.

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 34.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 17.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 33.

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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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