Forecast Details for Lincoln, NE

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Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 33. Breezy, with a north wind 16 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 55. North wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 29. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable. Winds could gust as high as 17 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Breezy, with a south wind 8 to 13 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 39 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. South wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind 5 to 7 mph.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Southeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night: A chance of rain and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. South southeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Tuesday: A slight chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Southwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Tuesday Night: A chance of rain and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Southwest wind around 15 mph becoming north northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph.

Wednesday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. North wind 13 to 16 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

Wednesday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Northeast wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.

Thursday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 60. North northeast wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

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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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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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