fronts
by kaden
cold front
The cooler and denser air wedges under the less-dense warmer air, lifting it. This upward motion causes lowered presseur along the cold front and can cause the formation of a narrow line of showers and thunderstomes when enough is present. On whether maps, the surface position of the cold front is marked with the symbol of a blue line of triangles/spikes (pips) pointing in the direction of travel. A cold front's location is at the leading edge of the temp. drop off, which in an analysis would show up as the leading edge of the isotherm gradient, and it normally lies within a sharp surface .
Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts and can produce sharper changes in weather. Since cold air is denser than warm air, it rapidly replaces the warm air preceding the boundary.
In the northern hemisphere, a cold front usually causes a shift of wind from southwest to northwest clockwise, also known as veering, and in the southern hemisphere a shift from northwest to southwest, in a counterclockwise manner. Normally, cold fronts can be marked by these characteristics:
what kind of wether cold fronts bring?
warm front
A warm front is a located at the leading edge of a homogeneous warm air mass, and is typically located on the equator-facing edge of an isotherm gradient. Warm fronts lie within broader troughs of low pressure than cold forts , and move more slowly than the cold fronts which usually follow because cold air is denser and less easy to remove from the Earth's surface.1This also forces temperature differences across warm fronts to be broader in scale. Clouds ahead of the warm front are mostly stationary , and rainfall gradually increases as the front approaches. fog can also occur preceding a warm frontal passage. Clearing and warming is usually rapid after frontal passage. If the warm air mass is unstable, thunderstorms may be embedded among the stratiform clouds ahead of the front, and after frontal passage thundershowers may continue. On whether map, the surface location of a warm front is marked with a red line of semicircles pointing
What kind of whether an warm front bings?
stationary front
A stationary front is a pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other. On a weather map, this is shown by an inter-playing series of blue spikes pointing one direction and red domes pointing the other.They tend to remain essentially in the same area for extended periods of time, and waves sometimes propagate along the frontal boundary.
A wide variety of weather can be found along a stationary front, but usually clouds, prolonged , and are found there. When there is a lot of water vapor in the warmer air mass, significant amounts of rain or freezing rain can occur.
Stationary fronts will either dissipate after several days or devolve into but can change into a or if conditions aloft change. Additionally, if one air mass enters the other, then it will change into a cold or warm front, and the stationary front will be classified as moving. For instance, if a warm air mass enters a cold air mass, since the advancing air mass is warm, the occluded front will change into a warm front.