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Warm Front transition zone from cold air to warm air
A warm front is defined as the transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass.

 


WARM FRONT
The leading edge of an advancing warm air mass that is replacing a retreating relatively colder air mass.

Warm Front - the advancing edge of a warm air mass
Warning - a product issued by the local National Weather Service office when a particular weather hazard is either imminent or has been reported.

Warm Front
A transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing.
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A transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing.
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Warm Front A front that moves in such a way that warm air replaces cold air.

Warm front
A moving boundary that separates warmer air from cooler air. A warm front is named as such because the warm air is advancing on the cold air. These are not common in mainland Australia but cross TAS regularly during winter.

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WARM FRONT: A boundary between a warm airmass that is replacing a cooler airmass.
WARNING: Forecast issued when a particular hazard is "imminent" or already occurring (e.g., tornado warning, flash flood warning).

Warm front: A front in which cool air is replaced by warmer air.
Warnings: Issued when a hazardous weather is occurring or about to occur.
Watches: Issued when the risk of hazardous weather is significant.

Warm Front
Any non-occluded front which moves in such a way that warm air replaces cold air.
Water Spout
A spout occurring over water; this behavior is characterized by a tendency to dissipate upon reaching shore.

Warm front The leading edge of a warm air mass.
Water balance The comparison of actual and potential evapotranspiration with the amount of precipitation, usually on a monthly basis.

WARM FRONT- A synoptic scale boundary between warm and cold air. The warm air replaces the cooler air over time.

Warm front A narrow zone of transition between relatively warm air that is advancing and relatively cool air that is receding.

Warm Front- A narrow transitions zone separating advancing warmer air from retreating cooler air. The air behind a warm front is warmer and typically more humid than the air it is replacing.

Warm front - The transition zone where a warm air mass overtakes and replaces a colder air mass.

Pseudo-Warm Front - A boundary between a supercell's inflow region and the forward-flank downdraft (or FFD).

Warm Front: Front whose movement is such that a warmer air mass replaces a colder one. The passage of a warm front is normally characterized on the surface of the Earth by an increase in temperature and a change in the direction of the wind.

Warm Front - a front where the warmer air is advancing and the cold air is retreating
Stationary Front - one where nobody seems to be making any progress ...

WARM FRONT: A leading boundary of a warm airmass that is often moving into an area influenced by a cooler airmass.

Warm Front- The leading edge of a mass of warmer air that displaces a mass of colder air.
Warning- A threatening weather condition is occuring as indicated by a radar or spotter, or is expected to occur or strike an area very soon.

WARM FRONT - An advancing mass of warm air.
WEATHERVANING - The tendency for an airplane to turn into the wind naturally due to a greater surface area behind the center of gravity as compared to that in front.

Warm front
A boundary separating cold and warm air masses at which the warm air is advancing.
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Warm Front - The boundary between two air masses, one cool and the other warm, moving so that the warmer air replaces the cooler air.

warm front: any front that moves so that warm air replaces colder air.

Forward Flank Downdraft: The main region of downdraft in the forward, or leading, part of a supercell, where most of the heavy precipitation is. Compare with rear flank downdraft. See pseudo-warm front and supercell.

The basic frontal types are cold fronts, warm fronts and occluded fronts.FrostThe formation of thin ice crystals on the ground or other surfaces.

Cold OcclusionA frontal zone formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and, being colder than the air ahead of the warm front, slides under the warm front, lifting it aloft. Compare with warm occlusion.

WFOWeather Forecast Office - this type of National Weather Service office is responsible for issuing advisories, warnings, statements, and short term forecasts for its county warning areaWFPWarm Front PassageWhirlwindA small, ...

It is attached to a supercell's general updraft and is oriented roughly parallel to the pseudo-warm front, i.e., usually east to west or southeast to northwest. As with any inflow band, cloud elements move toward the updraft, i.e.

Warm front: warm fronts occur when a warmer air mass approaches a colder air mass. The warmer air lifts up and over the colder air. Warm fronts move more slowly than cold fronts, and are associated with less severe weather.

This front will separate air behind the cold front from air ahead of the warm front. This is a common process in the late stages of wave-cyclone development, but is not limited to occurrence within a wave cyclone.

Fronts are also identified: a 'classical' depression appearing in the western North Atlantic, with an identifier 'A', will have its warm front labelled 'A', and its cold front 'B'.

A warm front occurs when a warm air mass moves into an area occupied by a colder air mass. The warm air is lighter, so it flows up the slope of the cold air below it.

Related terms: occluded front and warm front
COLD HIGH
A high pressure system that has its coldest temperatures at or near the center of circulation, and horizontally, is thermally barotropic.

In mid latitudes, this form is most often seen on the western or southern horizon with the approach of a warm front or as cirrus blows out from the top of a distant thunderstorm cloud (cumulonimbus).

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.

When the cold front moves faster than the warm front, and as it overtakes the warm front, the warm sector is closed and a combine front forms. This process is called occlusion.
The front formed in this way is called an occluded front.
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OCCLUDED FRONT Also known as an occlusion, it is a complex front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front. It develops when three thermally different air masses conflict.

If a cold front rides up and over a warm front, it is a WARM OCCLUSION. If a cold front slides under the warm front, it is a COLD OCCLUSION.

Front - A transition zone between two differing air masses. Basic types are cold front, warm front, and stationary front.

Overrunning often is applied to the case of warm air riding up over a retreating layer of colder air, as along the sloping surface of a warm front.

Also known as an occlusion, it is a complex front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front. It develops when three thermally different air masses conflict. The type of frontal boundary they create depends on the manner in which they meet.

An area where warm air is pushed upwards as a cold front overtakes a warm front and pushes underneath it
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Cold-Type Occluded Front - A front that forms when the air behind the cold front is colder than the air underlying the warm front it is overtaking.

Front- the boundary or transition zone of two air masses; if cold air advances and replaces warmer air the front is a cold front, and if warm air advances and replaces cooler air the front is a warm front.

Thus, it might be said that a surface pressure system tends to be steered by isotherms, contour lines, streamlines aloft, warm-sector isobars, the orientation of a warm front, etc.

two air masses of different density, and therefore (usually) of different temperature. A moving front is named according to the advancing air mass, e.g. cold front if colder air is advancing. The basic frontal types are cold fronts, warm fronts and ...

Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of the atmosphere density, a front almost invariably separates air masses of different temperature. When warmer air replaces the colder, it is a warm front, ...

from the southwest to the northwest in the Northern Hemisphere). Precipitation is generally at and/or behind the front, and with a fast-moving system, a squall line may develop ahead of the front. Related terms: occluded front and warm front ...

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