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fronts - Used in mmeteorology to describe bounderies between hot and cold air masses. This is typically where bad weather is found.
full keel - A keel that runs the length of the boat. Full keels have a shallower draft than fin keels.

 


fronts - The boundaries between air masses (either warm or cold); boundaries delineated by differences in air temperature.
full - When all the sails are filled with the wind and quite steady.

Big storm fronts are usually forecast 12 to 48 hours ahead. Small isolated thunderstorms are much less predictable. These storms are very difficult for your local weather forecast to predict.

Cold & Warm Fronts Clouds Safe Semi-Circles,
Land and Sea Breezes ...

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horizontal cross-sections that have narrow, usually pointed, fronts (at the bow), ...

It can sometimes be traced as a continuous wavy line thousands of miles in length, but it is interrupted when polar air breaks through to feed the trade winds, and is often replaced by a very complex series of fronts, ...

We were bound for the Bay Islands of Honduras with a planned stop at Lighthouse Reef, home of the famed Blue-Hole dive spot. It was early February and an uncharacteristically cold northwest wind was sweeping across Belize. Northers (cold fronts) ...

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