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Weather Patterns

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Cold Front   When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow moving warm air mass.  
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Warm Front   When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.  
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Stationary Front   When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other.  
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Occluded Front   Where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.  
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Storm   A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.  
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Tornado   A funnel shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface.  
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Hurricane   A long-lasting storm that starts over the warm surface of the ocean and has winds of 119 km or higher.  
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Flash Floods   Sudden, violent floods that occur shortly after a storm.  
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Meteorologist   A scientist that studies weather and tries to predict it.  
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Isotherms   Lines on a map joining places with the same temperature.  
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Isobars   Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure.  
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Front   The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not easily mix.  
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