Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded. ... An occluded front happens when a cold front over-takes a warm front. This happens closer to the center of a low pressure system.

To understand how warm and cold fronts work, we must first learn what fronts are. A front is a boundary between two different air masses at the surface of the Earth, with warm air on one side and ...

Warm fronts will be solid red lines with red half-circles pointed toward the direction they are also moving. Stationary fronts, however, will have both a warm front and cold front alternating ...

In general terms, there are four major types of frontal passages: cold front, warm front, occluded front and stationary front. In the presence of any of these fronts, ...

We hear it all the time from meteorologists. “A cold front will move in and bring storms,” or “a warm front is heading our way with light rain.” But why do we expect certain weather ...

A stationary front occurs when a cold front or warm front stops moving. This occurs when two airmasses push against each other, but neither is strong enough to move the other.

A cold front is the leading edge of an advancing cold air mass and a warm front is the leading edge of an advancing warm air mass. By Brandon Libby The movement of these fronts depends only upon ...

The stationary front will look like a combination of the warm and cold fronts. It will have blue triangles pointed in one direction, and alternate with red semicircles pointed in the opposite ...

As the cold air takes over the warm mass of it causes the warm air to rise…which will then cool and condense and can cause thunderstorms to form. After a cold front moves through, cooler and fair ...

When you look at a weather map on TV or online there are certain items that are standard and stand out. They’ve been known about as long as the science of meteorology has been studied. We’re ...

With cold fronts, depicted by a blue line with triangles on a weather map, the slope is steeper than what you would find in a warm front. This means when the cold air clashes with warmer air, the ...