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Why does precipitation happens at fronts?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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One, it doesn't always.

Two, a front is a place where atmospheric conditions are changing rapidly. One of those changes MAY well be that the amount of water vapor in the air exceeds its carrying capacity ... thus precipitation.

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