Forecast Details for Heart Butte, MT

Recent Locations: Double Springs, AL Crandall, GA Heart Butte, MT

Overnight: A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. West northwest wind around 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: Snow showers likely. Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 31. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Thursday Night: A 40 percent chance of snow showers before midnight. Patchy blowing snow before 8pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 21. North northwest wind 12 to 17 mph becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday: Snow showers likely, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 40. North northwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph becoming west southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 52. West southwest wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. West southwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. West southwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.

Tuesday: A slight chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.

Wednesday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Breezy.

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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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Weather Topic: What are Fractus Clouds?

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A fractus cloud (scud) is a fragmented, tattered cloud which has likely been sheared off of another cloud. They are accessory clouds, meaning they develop from parent clouds, and are named in a way which describes the original cloud which contained them.

Fractus clouds which have originated from cumulus clouds are referred to as cumulus fractus, while fractus clouds which have originated from stratus clouds are referred to as stratus fractus. Under certain conditions a fractus cloud might merge with another cloud, or develop into a cumulus cloud, but usually a fractus cloud seen by itself will dissipate rapidly.

They are often observed on the leading and trailing edges of storm clouds, and are a display of wind activity.

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