Forecast Details for Capitola, CA

Recent Locations: Center Moriches, NY Oakville, CT Capitola, CA

This Afternoon: Sunny, with a high near 75. Southwest wind around 6 mph.

Tonight: Patchy drizzle after 11pm. Patchy fog between 3am and 5am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 57. Light and variable wind.

Saturday: Patchy drizzle before 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: Patchy drizzle after 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Sunday: Patchy drizzle before 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Patchy drizzle after 11pm. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 59.

Monday: Patchy drizzle before 11am. Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 74.

Monday Night: Patchy drizzle after 11pm. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 60.

Tuesday: Patchy drizzle. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 72.

Tuesday Night: Patchy drizzle after 11pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 58.

Wednesday: Patchy drizzle and fog. Partly sunny, with a high near 71.

Wednesday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 58.

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

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Weather Topic: What are Mammatus Clouds?

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A mammatus cloud is a cloud with a unique feature which resembles a web of pouches hanging along the base of the cloud.

In the United States, mammatus clouds tend to form in the warmer months, commonly in the Midwest and eastern regions.

While they usually form at the bottom of a cumulonimbis cloud, they can also form under altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds. Mammatus clouds warn that severe weather is close.

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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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