Weather Fronts

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An occluded front is a weather boundary that forms when a faster-moving cold front catches up to a slower warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and creating a mix of c...

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Frontal movement describes how the boundary between two air masses—called a front—advances through the atmosphere, producing changes in temperature, wind, pressure, and prec...

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A cold front is the leading edge of a colder air mass advancing into a region occupied by warmer air. As the denser cold air pushes beneath the warmer air, it lifts that air, of...