FRONTAL SYSTEM - A weather system involving one or more fronts. Commonly used with extratropical storms having warm and cold front regions.
A frontal system which forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front. When the air behind the front is cooler than the air ahead, it is called a cold occlusion, when the air ahead is milder, it is a warm occlusion.
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SATELLITE PICTURES Pictures taken by a weather satellite that reveal information, such as the flow of water vapor, the movement of frontal systems, and the development of a tropical system.
to east, crossing few latitude zones within the same longitude range: this is a 'highly zonal' type - any short-wave disturbances embedded in the flow will be carried quickly along and the weather is ever-changing as a succession of frontal systems, ...
Paradoxically, 1994 was otherwise mostly devoid of the strong frontal systems that normally bring winter rains to the southern states. Strong winds were also a major factor in severe bushfires along the eastern seaboard in January 1994.
Occluded Front (Occlusion): A complex frontal system that ideally forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front. When the air is colder than the air ahead of it, the front is called a Cold Occlusion.
Images taken by a weather satellite that reveal information, such as the flow of water vapor, the movement of frontal system, and the development of a tropical system. Looping individual images aids meteorologists in forecasting.
In time, hurricanes move into the middle latitudes and are driven northeastward by the westerlies, occasionally merging with midlatitude frontal systems.
Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) This expression, often used by the National Weather Service, refers to a cluster of thunderstorms which is larger in scale than any individual cumulonimbus cloud, but smaller in scale than a frontal system.
In synoptic meteorology, the principal cloud structure of a typical wave cyclone, that is, the cloud forms found on the cold-air side of the frontal system.
atmosphere due to absorbed, incoming solar radiation and infrared radiation lost to space--as modified by such effects as the Coriolis force, the condensation of water vapor, the formation of clouds, the interaction of air masses and frontal systems, ...
 See also: Surface, Wind, Storm, Latitude, Water
  
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