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Current Alerts for Ryegate, MT: High Wind Watch

1. Avalanche Warning for: Absaroka/Beartooth Mountains

2. Avalanche Warning for: Kootenai/Cabinet Region

3. Avalanche Warning for: Kootenai/Cabinet Region; West Glacier Region

4. High Wind Watch for: Cascade County below 5000ft; Judith Basin County and Judith Gap; Upper Blackfoot and MacDonald Pass; Gates of the Mountains; Little Belt and Highwood Mountains; Big Belt, Bridger and Castle Mountains

5. High Wind Watch for: Central and Southeast Phillips; Northern Phillips; Southwest Phillips

6. High Wind Watch for: East Glacier Park Region; Northern High Plains; Southern Rocky Mountain Front; Southern High Plains

7. High Wind Watch for: Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera

8. High Wind Watch for: Helena Valley

9. High Wind Watch for: Livingston Area; Beartooth Foothills

10. High Wind Watch for: Meagher County Valleys; Elkhorn and Boulder Mountains; Canyon Ferry Area; Missouri Headwaters; Madison River Valley; Gallatin Valley; Beaverhead and Western Madison below 6000ft

11. High Wind Watch for: Northern Blaine County

12. High Wind Watch for: Northern Stillwater; Golden Valley; Judith Gap; Northern Sweet Grass; Melville Foothills; Southern Wheatland

13. High Wind Watch for: Western and Central Chouteau County; Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine

14. Winter Storm Warning for: Absaroka/Beartooth Mountains

15. Winter Storm Warning for: Crazy Mountains

16. Winter Weather Advisory for: Bitterroot/Sapphire Mountains

17. Winter Weather Advisory for: Butte/Blackfoot Region

18. Winter Weather Advisory for: East Glacier Park Region; Southern Rocky Mountain Front; Upper Blackfoot and MacDonald Pass

19. Winter Weather Advisory for: Little Belt and Highwood Mountains

20. Winter Weather Advisory for: Lower Clark Fork Region

21. Winter Weather Advisory for: Northwest Beaverhead County

22. Winter Weather Advisory for: Potomac/Seeley Lake Region

23. Winter Weather Advisory for: Pryor/Northern Bighorn Mountains; Northeast Bighorn Mountains

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Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?

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Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.

Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall, becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds. When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.

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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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