Posted: February 20th, 2023
1. Identify the location of warm fronts on the map. Describe the air masses causing these fronts and their direction of movement. What type of weather do you expect from these fronts? Be sure to not simply explain what is listed on the map as it is just one person’s forecast.
2. Identify the location of cold fronts on the map. Describe the air masses causing these fronts and their direction of movement. What type of weather do you expect from these fronts? Be sure to not simply explain what is listed on the map as it is just one person’s forecast.
3. Read and respond to one other student by predicting where you expect tornadoes to form. Describe how occluded fronts form (cold fronts collide with warm fronts).
SOLUTION
An occluded front forms when a fast-moving cold front catches up to and overtakes a slower-moving warm front. As the two fronts converge, the warm air mass is pushed upward and squeezed between the two colder air masses.
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