Forecast Details for Assonet, MA

Recent Locations: Wynot, NE Gloucester, VA Assonet, MA

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between midnight and 5am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 4pm, then a slight chance of showers between 4pm and 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 75. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming northeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: A slight chance of showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Northeast wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.

Saturday Night: Cloudy, with a low around 46. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Sunday: Showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 60. South wind 6 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday Night: A chance of showers before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. West wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. West wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30. Northwest wind around 6 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Southwest wind around 8 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

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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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