GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Warm Front, Stratus Cloud, Nimbostratus Cloud

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Stationary front represents a situation when air movement is almost parallel to the boundary & the surface position of the front doesn"t move very quickly, usually less than 5 mph forward speed. * usually stratus clouds (if any) associated with stationary fronts. * symbolized on a weather map as (cool to cold air on this side) (warmer air on this side) Occluded front is a front formed when a cold front over takes and replaces a warm front at the surface. * usually stratus and nimbostratus clouds associated with occluded fronts and thus less severe weather. Drylines: the boundary between mt (wet) and ct (dry) air masses as seen during the summer in texas and the southern great. * they are a boundary separating 2 air mass of varying water vapor content (humidity) and not temperature. Warm sector: the winds are primarily southwesterly to southerly.

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