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Maddie's Weather

Air mass, fronts, and pressure

TermDefinition
High Air Pressure Is a whirling mass of cool, dry air that generally brings fair wether & light winds.
Low Air Pressure Is a whirling mass of warm, moist air that generally brings stormy weather & strong winds
Air Mass HUGE bodies of air that form over land or water in tropical or polar regions.
Continental Polar (cP) Form over cold & dry regions. Cold & dry, but not as cold as cA. Form farther south & often dominate the weather picture across the USA during winter.
Continental Arctic (cA) Form exclusively in the arctic & antarctic regions. Extremely cold & very little moisture.
Continental Tropical (cT) Form over deserts & plains. Hot and very dry.
Maretime Polar (mP) Maretime type humidities with cool, moist weather, brings cloudy damp weather
Maretime Tropical (mT) Warm temperatures with lots of moisture
Weather Fronts Contact zones between two different air masses
Cold Fronts The contact boundary of an advancing cold air mass over a stationary warm air mass. Brings cool, fair weather.
Warm Fronts The contact boundary of an advancing warm air mass over a stationary cold air mass. Brings gental rain or light snow followed by warmer, milder weather.
Stationary Fronts Neither of the air masses are advancing over the other. Brings days of clouds & precipitation.
Occluded Front When a cold front over takes warm front. Brings strong winds & heavy precipitation
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