Fronts help us predict weather because cold fronts bring cold weather and warm fronts bring warmer weather. Cold fronts might bring short but heavy showers, or even severe weather like tornadoes. Warm fronts make the sky fill with thicker, lower clouds, and there can be a light rain that last for hours or days.
Fronts cause the "local" weather. Fronts rarely collide but they do overtake the preceding front. When they meet the provoke the various types of weather. When a warm front overtakes a cold front it usually gently goes up over it and causes widespread rain, usually not violent storms. When a cold front overtakes a warm front it forces the warm air up suddenly and provokes a narrow band of more violent storms.
There are many variations, depending on temperature contrast, humidity, speed of both fronts, occasional inversions, etc but the line where the fronts meet is the the weather is caused.
A cold front occurs when a cold air mass move into a warm air mass. As the cold front moves in the warm air is forced upwards. As this happens the air cools, and is no longer able to hold as much moisture, so much of that moisture condenses.
Precipitation occurs requires that ice crystals and water droplets exist side by side in a cloud at temperatures below freezing.
They don't. Hurricanes are not related to fronts.
Clouds that include the term "nimbus" tend to be the ones that come with moderate precipitation and storms. These clouds tend to be fluffy with dark gray bottoms.
Warm front--rise in temperature; gentle rain; longer duration Cold front--drop in temperature; violent precipitation including storms; shorter duration Stationary front--many days of precipitation along the frontal boundary Occluded front--precipitation
a mid- precipitation and a few rain clouds and high humidity
Clouds can form in one of four ways: mountains, the rise of air masses, cold or warm weather fronts, and surface heating. Cumulus clouds form by surface heating or mountains, status forms by weather fronts, and all types can form by the rising of air masses.
areas of rising air and low pressure. When air rises it cools, and the moisture it contains condenses out as clouds, which eventually produce precipitation.
Precipitation!
warm
stationary fronts would most likely be responsible for several days of rain and clouds.
stationary fronts would most likely be responsible for several days of rain and clouds.
stationary fronts would most likely be responsible for several days of rain and clouds.
nimbostratus
cumulonimbus
Cumuliform clouds typically form along or ahead of a cold front. Most cloudiness and precipitation associated with a cold front occur as a relatively narrow band along or just ahead of where the front intersects Earth's surface.
Pressure, Cold Fronts/ Warm Fronts, precipitation, and Energy(Kinetic/Potential) [average KE=Temp]
Evaporation is the cause of precipitation. The clouds gather vaporized water, and when they are full, they allow precipitation to fall in the form of ran or snow.
Cold fronts
Not always. Although many cumulnimbus clouds are associated with cold fronts, some form along dry lines or, lest often, warm fronts. Some form without any sort of front or organized weather system.