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    A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity. Disturbed...
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    occluded front is a type of weather front formed during cyclogenesis. The classical and usual view of an occluded front is that it starts when a cold front overtakes...
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    A stationary front (or quasi-stationary front) is a weather front or transition zone between two air masses when each air mass is advancing into the other...
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    within a sharp surface trough. Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts and can produce sharper changes in weather. Since cold air is denser than warm...
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  • Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property. Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations,...
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    clouds ahead of the front, and after frontal passage thundershowers may continue. On weather maps, the surface location of a warm front is marked with a...
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    geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts. The first weather maps in the 19th century were drawn well after the fact to...
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    Dry line (redirect from Marfa front)
    resulting in convective clouds. Dew point depression Surface weather analysis Weather front Outflow boundary Scott Girhard (2007-05-04). "Lecture 3 - Thunderstorms"...
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    Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather and its greater meaning. Much like regular folklore, weather lore...
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    In meteorology, the polar front is the weather front boundary between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell around the 60° latitude, near the polar regions...
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  • in linguistics Ice front of a glacier Weather front, a boundary separating air masses, and the cause of most weather phenomena Front organization, any...
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  • temperatures 40 degrees in only 15 minutes and 67 degrees in 10 hours, a world record. Weather front "Norther" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. v t e...
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    for research and weather forecasting purposes. Maps using isotherms show temperature gradients, which can help locate weather fronts. Isotach maps, analyzing...
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    the subtropical ridge becomes strong enough to push this front north of the region. These weather systems can produce heavy rainfall and flooding. In China...
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    April to July. The phenomenon, according to the National Weather Service, consists of a cold front that accelerates southerly down Lake Michigan, rapidly...
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    Haboob (category Weather hazards)
     'blasting/drifting') is a type of intense dust storm carried by the wind of a weather front or thunderstorm. Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout...
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    geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts. The first weather maps in the 19th century were drawn well after the fact to...
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    air masses are dry, while maritime and monsoon air masses are moist. Weather fronts separate air masses with different density (temperature or moisture)...
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    The Arctic front is the semipermanent, semi-continuous weather front between the cold arctic air mass and the warmer air of the polar cell. It can also...
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    The meiyu front, also known as baiu front, is a persistent nearly stationary weak baroclinic zone in the lower troposphere. It is located over the east...
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    Cyclone (category Weather hazards)
    temperature contrasts called baroclinic zones. These zones contract and form weather fronts as the cyclonic circulation closes and intensifies. Later in their life...
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    Squall line (category Weather fronts)
    similar to a gust front, except that the wind is sustained and generally increases in strength behind the "gust" front. A warm weather phenomenon, derechos...
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  • advancing of the downdraft air toward the inflow region. It is a particular form of gust front. National Weather Service Glossary Pseudo-warm front v t e...
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  • dictionary. Storm Front may refer to: Weather fronts Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2004 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise Storm Front (novel), a 2000...
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    Outflow boundary (redirect from Gust front)
    another boundary (cold front, dry line, another outflow boundary, etc.). Outflow boundaries can be seen either as fine lines on weather radar imagery or else...
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    Trough (meteorology) (category Synoptic meteorology and weather)
    conditions there. Unlike fronts, there is not a universal symbol for a trough on a surface weather analysis chart. The weather charts in some countries...
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  • breaks the ship's radio antenna just as Hurricane Grace and the northern weather front merge with each other atop them. Rookie fisherman Bobby Shatford attempts...
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    Types of fronts include cold fronts, warm fronts, and occluded fronts. frontogenesis The meteorological process by which a weather front is created...
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    frontal boundary, creating more precipitation while the front lasts. Passing weather fronts often result in sudden changes in environmental temperature...
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    Wind shear (category Weather hazards to aircraft)
    scale weather features such as squall lines and cold fronts. It is commonly observed near microbursts and downbursts caused by thunderstorms, fronts, areas...
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