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What happens when a cold air mass colliding with a warm moist warm air mass?

A cold front occurs when a cool air mass pushes into a warmer one. Since cool air is denser than warm air, the warm air mass gets forced up and over the cooler one. As the air rises it cools, causing moisture in it to condense into clouds and rain.


What happens to warm air as it takes over a cold air mass?

The warm air and cold air will end up combining and forming bad weather such as rain, tornadoes or other natural disaster's such as hurricanes or thunder storms.


What is the climate for puget sound lowlands?

Very rainy, cold, can be warm but unlikely


What happens when a cold front hits a warm front?

When a warm front and cold front meet the cool air rises above the warm air which creates lift which causes the moist air parcels to rise into the atmosphere. Then they condense into water droplets and form clouds those clouds will then form into thunderstorms which when the water molecules get heavy enough will fall as rain and then the water molecules and air molecules bounce off each other create the lightning you get with thunderstorms and that lightning creates a sonic boom which is the thunder. So basically a warm front and cold front colliding create thunderstorms which if the atmosphere supports it can potentially produce thunderstorms that produce tornadoes.


When a warm air mass is colliding with a cold air mass what is the border between the two air masses called?

The location where two different air masses meet is called a front.

Related questions

How do you tell when thunder is coming?

Thunder storms occur when hot air and cold air run into each other. Therefore one way of predicting them is if you notice a cold front has come during warm weather, or a warm front during cold weather.


What causes vortex to form?

when a cold air front meets a warm air front


Do sound waves move faster through cold or warm air?

warm air


Where does the hot air and cold air come from in a tornado?

Warm anc cold air colliding are not a direct cause of tornadoes, but they can be a step in the process. where they come from depends on the region the weater system is in. But normally the warm air comes from a warm part of the ocean while the cold air comes from a cold region. In the Central United States, for example, the warm air comes from the Gulf of Mexico while the cold air comes from Canada.


When a warm front meets a cold front but neither is strong enough to take over the other?

thunder storm


Does sound travel faster in warm or cold air and why?

sound travel faster in cold air half i give you further other person will give


When does Sound travels fastest through matter when it is warm cold or not moving?

It depends... It's well-known that sound travels faster through denser (cold air has higher density then warm) media. So if you have a situation when sound travels through either cold or warm air. The speed of the sound will higher in the cold air. From other side if you have air which of course possesses certain temperature which is moving the sound speed will depend on both temperature and the vector of velocity (direction where it is blowing and and value how much it's blowing).


What happens when a cold air mass colliding with a warm moist warm air mass?

A cold front occurs when a cool air mass pushes into a warmer one. Since cool air is denser than warm air, the warm air mass gets forced up and over the cooler one. As the air rises it cools, causing moisture in it to condense into clouds and rain.


What happens to warm air as it takes over a cold air mass?

The warm air and cold air will end up combining and forming bad weather such as rain, tornadoes or other natural disaster's such as hurricanes or thunder storms.


What is the climate for puget sound lowlands?

Very rainy, cold, can be warm but unlikely


Why do we not have thunder storms when the temperature is below a certain degree around 35 or less?

Thunderstorms are created by rising warm air currents - if it's cold, there's no warm air to rise.


Does sound travel faster in warm air or cold air?

it travels faster in warner air since cold particles dont move very fast because they do not have much energy. then when warm air enters the particles they start moving faster and vibrating faster which moves sound along alot faster. hope this helps :).