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What is the difference between fronts and low pressure systems?
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A front is a boundary between two different air masses, usually a warmer/moist one and a cold/dryer one. A low pressure system is a region where air converges and rises, lowering the pressure in the center. As the name implies, it is a system of many different processes which include fronts as well as different types of transports of air. This system feeds on the boundary between the two air masses - their temperature and moisture differences - and a warm front forms out ahead of it where it is drawing very warm and moist air in front of it as it advances, while the cold front lags behind this warm front and behind the warm air it drags in, with cold and sometimes Arctic air being dragged down behind it. Refer to the related link for an idea of what this will look like.
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One place where form is along fronts?
high pressure systems
Why are low pressure systems usually associated with cold fronts?
A cold front is usually associated with low pressure systems because it is dense or heavier than warm air and descends downwards.
What kind of pressure accompany cold fronts?
Low pressure is always with cold fronts.
Describe how low pressure systems form at cold warm and ststionary fronts?
The low pressure systems form at cold because it means badweather. It forms at warm because it collides with a warm air mass. It does that with a stationary front.!!!!
What are weather systems?
A high pressure system brings with it light winds and generally fair weather. A low pressure system brings wet, humid weather and is the cause of many weather fronts.
What is the relationship between Fronts and low-pressure systems?
low pressure systems form at fronts
What is the relationship's between fronts and low pressure systems?
low pressure systems form at fronts
Do high pressure systems form along fronts?
High pressure is not associated with fronts (or air mass boundaries).
One place where form is along fronts?
high pressure systems
What weather systems are tornadoes associated with?
They are associated with Low pressure systems and mix of cold front and warm fronts.
What causes wheather movement?
The movement of wheather fronts from high pressure (cyclone) to low pressure systems(anticyclone).
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.
What causes the air in both low and high pressure systems to move to the right?
movement of weather fronts
What is the difference between the different fronts?
You have a few different types of fronts. You have warm fronts, cold fronts, and stationary fronts. First off the warm front alot of times they tend to move from south to north and when you get a warm front that moves through it obviously makes it warmer where you are. A cold front does just the opposite it makes it colder when it moves through and tends to normally head from the west to the east. Then a stationary front just basically sits there until it is pushed from either another front or a low or high pressure system then it can either be a cold or warm front. Additionally, occluded fronts are old cold fronts in mature low pressure systems where the storm has essentially used up the temperature gradient that existed in that sector, and there is no appreciable difference in air masses.
Are tornadoes associated with anti cyclones?
No, anticyclones are high-pressure systems and are generally associate with fair weather. Tornadoes are more often associated with fronts and low pressure systems or cyclones.
Why are warm and cold fronts only assoucated with l and not h?
Fronts exist because they are boundaries between air masses, which is basically why low pressure exists. Low pressure systems feed off these air mass differences where the air converges and is forced to rise. However, a high pressure system is one big homogeneous airmass, with subsiding air that diverges around it. There are no fronts because there are no differing air masses.
Why are low pressure systems usually associated with cold fronts?
A cold front is usually associated with low pressure systems because it is dense or heavier than warm air and descends downwards.
