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Warm fronts are usually associated with rain showers. Thunderstorms can develop, but are fairly uncommon.
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Would a warm front or cold front bring hail and tornadoes?
Contrary to the common layperson's explanation, tornadoes are not triggered by the collision of a warm front and a cold front. This is based on a misreading of the statement that tornadoes form from a collision of warm and cold air masses along a cold front, which is itself an oversimplification. The front itself does not directly trigger tornadoes. When a warm and cold air mass collide, the warm air is forced up because it is less dense. If this warmer air mass is unstable enough, the collision can trigger strong thunderstorms. This is a very common occurrence, and most of the resulting storms will not produce tornadoes. If the storms are strong enough and wind conditions are right, these storms may then develop the strong rotation needed to produce tornadoes.
What type of air may form when cool air cold air and warm air meet?
STatioNary Front :):
What type of front coincides with the origin of a mid-latitude cyclone?
Mid-latitude cyclones typically produce both a cold front and a warm front. These will usually merge to form an occluded front.
What is the classic answer for how tornadoes form and why it is wrong?
The classic answer for how tornado form states that warm and cold air come together and swirl up, or something to that effect. Many tornadoes are associated with cold fronts (where cooler air pushes into warmer air) and on occasion are associated with warm fronts (where cold air retreats and warm air comes in. However the front is not the direct cause of the tornado. The front lifts the warmer air which, if there is enough instability, can trigger thunderstorms. Given a few other conditions such as wind shear these storms can start to rotate and potentially produce tornadoes. However, these storms do not necessarily form along a warm or cold front. Many tornadic thunderstorms form along a dry line, where dry air pushes into moist air with relatively little temperature difference. In fact a dry line is often better at producing tornadic storms than a cold front is. Tornadoes can also form in the thunderstorms generated by tropical cyclones (hurricanes, tropical storms etc.) where there are no notable boundaries such as those discussed above. On rare occasions tornadoes can form with thunderstorms that develop in the absence of an organized system. However such tornadoes are short lived and weak.
Why do hurricanes and tornadoes need a mixture of cool and warm air?
Hurricanes don't. They form within a region of warm air that has relatively little temperature variation. Tornadoes, on the other hand, are commonly found ahead of a cold front. A cold front occur when a mass of cool air plows into a mass of warm air. The warmer air, which is less dense, is forced upward and cools as it rises. Moisture in the warm air mass condense to form rain shows and, if there is enough moisture, thunderstorms. If the storms are strong enough and conditions are right these storms may produce tornadoes.
What type of front can create violent thunder storms and even tornadoes?
Cold fronts are most often associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, but such storms can form along warm fronts, stationary fronts, and dry lines.
What types of storms usually form along a warm front?
warm weather, light rain if not rainy nice warm and sunny so be ready to hit the bech!
What type of front does a blizzard need to form?
A warm front and a cold front must be brought together to form a blizzard
What type of front brings light steady rain or snow?
stationary fronts would most likely be responsible for several days of rain and clouds.
What is the similarities between a warm front ans a cold front?
The similarities between a warm front and a cold front are: * they are both fronts * they both form some type of clouds * they both produce some type of rain * they both have warm air rising * they both make some kind of weather TYPE OF : Clouds *Cold:produces different type of cumulus clouds *Warm:produces large area of stratus clouds,usually Rain *cold: heavy rain/T-storms *warm: slow steady Weather *cold: fair/cool after passing *warm:hot/humid after passing
What type of front may form when cool air cold air and warm air meets?
STatioNary Front :):
What type of front may form when cool air and cold air and warm air meet?
STatioNary Front :):
What type of front may form when cool air and warm air meet?
Stationary
Why Fronts form?
Fronts where high and low pressure systems meet for storms. In warm weather they form thunderstorms. In cold weather they can form snow storms.
Why tropical storms have their origin in the tropics?
Tropical storms need warm ocean water to form. Outside the tropics the water usually isn't warm enough.
When a warm humid air mass is pushed ahead of a cold front what sometimes forms?
Storms and most likely severe storms.
What is the weather front that causes a tornado?
Tornadoes most often form along cold fronts. However, they can form along stationary front and, on rare occasions, warm fronts. Dry lines are also known to produce tornadic storms.
