4 Types Of

Weather Fronts
Cold Fronts
Cold fronts normally found at
edge of temp drop offs
Often bringing heavy rain &
hail
Moving 2x faster than Warm
fronts. Much more dense than
warm air.
Marked on maps with blue
triangles in direction of travel
Cold air under warm air creates
heavy winds. If air is moist
thunderstorms are created.
Occluded Fronts
These fronts are created
when a cold front over-
takes a warm
Often around low pressur-
er areas
The air mass can either be
cold or warm
When cold the cool air
pushes under the warm,
vice versa.
A variety of weather can
be found along this type
of front, often thunder-
storms. usuallly the air is
dry.
Marked on maps with Purple
line with half-circles and
triangles in direction of
travel
WORK CITED
Wikipedia.
ww2010.atmos.uiuc-
ie.edu
JUSTIN GIBBS
3rd Period
9/11/2014
Warm Fronts
Warm fronts move much slower
than cold fronts
With cold air being denser its
hard to remove from earths
surface
Cold air being denser cause
wide temperature diffrences
Clouds ahead of these fronts
are often in strati form
Rain increases as the front
approaches
Marked on maps with a red line
of half-cirlces in direction of
travel.
Stationary Fronts
Non- moving boundary be-
tween two air masses
Normally in the same area
for long periods of time.
Bringing a wide variety of
temperatures
Clouds usually remain and
rain falls is prolonged.
These fronts often dissi-
pate or turn into shear lines
Can be warm or cold if
conditions change.
Marked on maps with red
and blue half-circles and
spikes in opposite directions.
Narrow zone where wind
dircetions changes often are
know as Shearlines.
Indicated by red dots and line.
COLD FRONTS
STATIONARY FRONTS
OCCLUDED FRONTS